"I could work it off at Casey's for a while, but this summer things sort of came to a head, and I saw meself for fair, and before God, Dannie, I didn't like me looks." "Well, then, I like your looks," said Dannie.

"Ye are the best company I ever was in.

Ye are the only mon I ever knew that I cared fra, and I care fra ye so much, I havna the way to tell ye how much.

You're possessed with a damn fool idea, Jimmy, and ye got to shake it off.
Such a great-hearted, big mon as ye! I winna have it! There's the dinner bell, and richt glad I am of it!" That afternoon when pumpkin gathering was over and Jimmy had invited Mary out to separate the "punk" from the pumpkins, there was a wagon-load of good ones above what they would need for their use.
Dannie proposed to take them to town and sell them.

To his amazement Jimmy refused to go along.
"I told you this morning that Casey wasn't calling me at prisent," he said, "and whin I am not called I'd best not answer.