"There ain't nothin' to tell.

Now, 'bout a boy bein' civil.

You don't often find one, out West here, and when you do it's mostly accident; mebbe inherited.

'Course you c'n train a boy t' be p'lite, but you got t' be careful, like in trainin' any other animal, an' not take th' spunk outa him.

Most folks thinks that when a boy's civil he ain't got nothin' else t' recommend him, but 'tain't allus so.