“I am going beyond there—to Charleston.”
“Ah—come from Hamburg this mornin’?”
“No—from beyond there.”
“Did ye?—where’d you come from?”
“From Wilmington.”
“How long yer ben comin’?”
“I left Wilmington night before last, about ten o’clock. I have been ever since on the road.”
“Reckon yer a night-bird.”
“What?”
“Reckon you are a night-bird—what we calls a night-hawk; keeps a goin’ at night, you know.”