"I mistrusted 'twould do you sights o' good; an' this shows I weren't mistook in my jedgments." A smothered chuckle on deck caught his ear.

"I am very seldom mistook in my jedgments." The eleven-inch hand closed on Harvey's, numbing it to the elbow.

"We'll put a little more gristle to that 'fore we've done with you, young feller; an' I don't think any worse of ye fer anythin' thet's gone by.
You wasn't fairly responsible.

Go right abaout your business an' you won't take no hurt." "You're white," said Dan, as Harvey regained the deck, flushed to the tips of his ears.
"I don't feel it," said he.
"I didn't mean that way.

I heard what dad said.