"Did Leander tell you I did ?" he asked.
"No," mockingly, "Leander didn't tell me.

You and Sam Hunniwell and the rest of the gang have fixed him so he don't come to his father to tell things any longer.

But he told his step-mother this very mornin' and she told me.

You was the one that advised him to enlist, he said.

Good Lord; think of it! He don't go to his own father for advice; he goes to the town jackass instead, the critter that spends his time whittlin' out young-one's playthings.