Well, Alexander, although he wasn't much more than a boy, kept on whipping the Persians until at last their king, Darius, ran away with his wives." Shif'less Sol whistled.
"Do you mean to tell me, Paul," he said, "that any white man ever had more than one wife! I thought only Injun chiefs had 'em ?" "Why, it was common a long time ago," replied Paul.
"What a waste!" said Shif'less Sol.

"One man havin' a lot uv wives, an' Jim Hart here ain't ever been able to get a single one." "An' you ain't, either, Sol Hyde," said Jim Hart.
"Oh, me!" replied Shif'less Sol carelessly.

"I'm too young to marry." "Let him go on about Alexander, the fightin' feller," interrupted Tom Ross.
"Alexander conquered all Asia," resumed Paul, "but it didn't agree with him.

The more he conquered the more he wanted to conquer." "Jest like a little boy eatin' turkey," said Shif'less Sol.

"Can't hold enough to suit him.