“You mean thing! I won’t go with you.”
“Well,” he replied, “I won’t go alone.”
“You don’t care for me a bit,” she said.
“You only care for me to serve your purpose,” he retorted.
“I will get Kibboo to go with me,” she next said.
“He may go,” replied Koree, “and I will stay with Alee till you return. She is a better climber, and can run faster than you.”
“Boo! hoo! she has no hair on her back, and is meaner than you. She ran from a little snake which I could bite in two.”
“But she loves me, and never quarrels with me.”
“She don’t love you; she only hates me, and wants to make you do so. She loves Ki, and picked the fleas off him when he came from the Swamp this evening.”