“Well, you'll have it again as soon as I have done with it. I say, what do you think of this book? is it true do you think?”
“Oh! it is true—I'd take my oath of that.”
“Why how do you know?”
“Because it reads like true.”
“That is no rule, ye fool.”
“Well, sir, what do you think?”
This question staggered Hawes for a moment. However he assumed an oracular look, and replied, “I think some of it is true and some isn't.”
“Do you think it is true about their knocking down blackee in one lot, and his wife in another, and sending 'em a thousand miles apart?”
“Oh, that is true enough! I daresay.”
“And running them down with bloodhounds?”