"It will almost break me heart when the gang comes and begins tearing up the swamp and scaring away me chickens." "Then what is the trouble ?" insisted McLean.
"I think, sir, it's been books," answered Freckles.

"You see, I didn't realize it meself until the bullfrog told me this morning.

I hadn't ever even heard about a place like this.

Anyway, I wasn't understanding how it would be, if I had.

Being among these beautiful things every day, I got so anxious like to be knowing and naming them, that it got to eating into me and went and made me near sick, when I was well as I could be.
Of course, I learned to read, write, and figure some at school, but there was nothing there, or in any of the city that I ever got to see, that would make a fellow even be dreaming of such interesting things as there are here.