Don't you wish they'd _quit_, sometimes, about the 'Ole Flag' ?" "I dunno," said Milla.

"I wasn't listening any at all.

I hate speeches." "Well, I could _stand_ 'em," Ramsey said, more generously, "if they'd ever give anybody a little to think about.

What's the use always draggin' in George Warshington and the Ole Flag?
And who wants to hear any more ole truck about 'from ole rocky New England to golden California,' and how big and fine the United States is and how it's the land of the Free and all that?
Why don't they ever say anything new?
That's what I'd like to know." Milla laughed, and when he asked why, she told him she'd never heard him talk so much "at one stretch." "I guess that speech got you kind of wound up," she said.

"Let's talk about something different." "I just soon," he agreed.