Norton smiled:
"Did you look in my big cedar box?"
"Thankee, sah—thankee, sah. Yer sho is good ter me, major, an' yer can always 'pend on me, sah."
"Yes, I'm going to send you to the penitentiary for this——"
Andy roared with laughter:
"Yassah—yassah—cose, sah! I kin see myse'f in dat suit er stripes now, but I sho is gwine ter blossom out in dat double-breasted vest fust!"
When the laughter had died away Norton asked in good-natured tones:
"You say I can depend on you, Andy?"
"Dat yer kin, sah—every day in the year—you'se de bes frien' I ebber had in de world, sah."
"Then I want to ask you a question."