"I don't know much, but I'll do the best I can." His modesty pleased the other.
"You know more than Jake Dennison, I reckon, except about devilment.

I was afred you mightn't be quite up to the place here; you was rather young when I seen you last." He measured him as he might have done a young bullock.
"Oh, I fancy I shall be," interrupted the young man, flushing at the suggestion.
"You've got to learn them Dennison boys, and them Dennison boys is pretty hard to learn anything.

You will need all the grit you've got." "Oh, I'll teach them," asserted Gordon, confidently.

The old man's eye rested on him.
"'Tain't _teachin'_ I'm a-talkin' about.

It's _learnin'_ I'm tellin' you they need.