"No. He said he'd learned a new verse—something about seeing ourselves as others see us—he wasn't mad, though."
"And they do say he hasn't got but one shirt to his back—that he sends what little money he gets, off to his step-mother."
"And that he never looks at none of the girls. Is this true, Mis' Cameron?"
"He don't seem to. The time we had that woman from Virginia and her two daughters, he slept at the store on the counter every night. But he's obliging that way when we're crowded."
"The men all say he's famous in stump speaking, wrestling and story-telling."
"And the women like him because he's honest, kind to women and forgetful of himself."
"He has a good turn for everybody and everything, from rabbits to such poor stuff as Snoutful Kelly. But he don't show no attention to girls."
"Maybe he has a girl at Gentryville or back on Pigeon Creek."
"I don't think so," Mrs. Cameron said, "and I'd be apt to know."