A. And as he wouldn’t let them kill him, they found a pit—
N. I like peach pits, an’ I know where I can find a great lot of ’em now. Come along.
A. No, let’s finish the story first. These bad men put Joseph in the pit—
N. Why—Aunt—Dora! What is you talking about?
A. About those cruel men who put Joseph into the pit—
N. I dess you mean zey put the pit into Joseph.
A. So there the poor little boy was, all alone in this deep, dark hole—
N. Why didn’t he climb out?
A. Because he couldn’t. The sides of the pit were rough, and it was very deep, deep as a well—
N. Ding-dong-dell, cat’s in ’e well; oh auntie, I know a nice story, ’bout a boy that felled into a cistern and climbed out on a ladder.