I kin whip my weight in wildcats." "You told us that afore," said Joshua placidly.
"Derned if I don't mean it, too!" exclaimed the Pike County man, with a fierce frown.

"Do you know how I served a man last week ?" "No.

Tell us, won't you ?" said Joshua.
"We was ridin' together over in Alameda County.

We'd met permiscuous, like we've met to-day.

I was tellin' him how four b'ars attacked me once, and I fit 'em all single-handed, when he laughed, and said he reckoned I'd been drinkin' and saw double.