Anything particular ?" I don't know, but I seemed to sort of feel that he knew what I was going to talk about, and I guess he just scrambled up there so the other fellows wouldn't hear.

Cracky, that fellow always had his wits about him, that's one sure thing.
I said, "I don't deny that I was kind of sore at you when you spoke to me down at the lake, and I can't tell whether I like you or not, because I can never make out what you really think.

You've got to know what a fellow thinks before you know whether you like him or not, don't you ?" He said you sure did, and then he said, "Well, I know whether I like _you_ or not, so it's all right." "I don't care much whether you like _me_" I said, "it's Skinny I'm thinking about.

I know I like _him_, you can bet." "And that's one reason I like you," he said; "because you like _him_.
Ever notice how the cedar shingles shrink in a dry spell ?" I said I didn't know they were cedar.
"You can always tell cedar by the smell," he said, "and the S warp." Gee, I didn't even know what an S warp was.
Then I said right out--I said, "You told me that you tracked Skinny.
Would you mind telling me where he went ?" For a minute he just kept moving the stick around and then he said, "What would be the use of telling you ?" "Because I've got a reason and I want to know," I said.

Then all of a sudden I knew why he climbed up there.