Here, what are you laughin' at ?" The word was ill-chosen; Jed seldom laughed, but he had smiled slightly and the captain noticed it.
"What are you grinnin' at ?" he repeated.
Jed's hand moved across his chin.
"Gab Bearse was in a spell ago," he replied, "and he was tellin' about what Melissa said." "Well, she said what I just said she said, didn't she ?" Mr.Winslow nodded.

"Um-hm," he admitted, "she said--er--all of that." "All of it?
Was there some more ?" "'Cordin' to Gabe there was.

'Cordin' to him she said.

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