Doctor Kirby would of thought of something to say right off.

And after I got back to camp I would think of something myself.

But I couldn't think of nothing bright, so I says: "Well, then, you give me another one!" She gives the core of the one she has been eating a toss at me.

But I ketched it, and made like I was going to throw it back at her real hard.
She slung up her arm, and dodged back, and she dropped her book.
I thinks to myself I'll learn that girl to get sassy and make me feel like a dumb-head, even if she is purty.

So I don't say a word.