He's been very good to me here and in Mexico.

I suppose I've got some relatives in Missouri, but they are so distant I've forgotten who they are, and probably they never knew anything about me.

If it's the other way about, Obed, what word shall I send ?" "Nothing to nobody.

I had a stepfather in Maine, who didn't like me, and my mother died five years after her second marriage.

I'm a Texan, Ned, same as if I were born on this soil, and my best friends are around me.
I'll live and die with 'em." The two, the man and the boy, shook hands, but made no further display of feeling.