“Mr. Bickford, what do you think of this man who has joined us?”
“I think he’s the biggest liar I ever set eyes on,” said Joshua bluntly.
“Then you don’t believe his stories?”
“No—do you?”
“I believe them as much as that yarn of yours about your Cousin Bill,” returned Joe, laughing.
“I wanted to give him as good as he sent. I didn’t want him to do all the lyin’.”
“And you a deacon’s son!” exclaimed Joe, in comic expostulation.
“I don’t know what the old man would have said if he’d heard me, or Cousin Bill, either.”
“Then one part is true—you have a Cousin Bill?”
“That isn’t the only part that’s true; he did help me and dad hayin’.”