You ain't mad, be you, pap ?" "I ain't so scandalous mad now, but if I could have got my fingers into your collar about the time I was a shiverin' in my wet clothes, I'd a played 'Far'well to the Star Spangled Banner' on your back with a good hickory, I bet you!" "'Kase if you be mad 'tain't my fault," continued Dan.

"I tried my level best to steal the canoe, but couldn't do it.

It was locked up tighter'n a brick.

I tried to get ten dollars fur you too, pap, but I couldn't do that nuther; so I brung Don Gordon's pinter along.

Swum the bayou, I reckon, didn't you ?" "I didn't walk acrosst, did I?
In course I swum it." "Your clothes ain't wet!" "No, 'kase I went back in the woods an' built a fire an' dried 'em.
Le's go back thar now, so't we kin talk.