"He's the most terrible powerful man in the world," Socky averred, and unconsciously twisted the soft ear of Zeb until the latter gave a little yelp of complaint.
"He can kill bears an' panthers an' deers an'—an' ketch fish," said Sue.
"He could swaller a whale," Socky declared, as he thought of the story of Jonah.
"Aunt Sinthy has got a hole in her shoe." The girl imparted this in a whisper.
Both felt the back of Zeb and were silent for a little.
"She blubbers!" Socky exclaimed, with a slight touch of contempt in the way he said it.
"Maybe she got her feet wet and Uncle Silas Spanked her."
"Big folks don't get spanked," the boy assured Sue.
"Do you like her?"
He answered quickly, as if the topic were a bore to him, "Purty well."