"Nuthin'."
"Did you get two trees, Specks?"
"Naw. Hain't many folks did, I guess. 'Tain't nuthin' to crow about, anyway."
"Huh! Thought ye said the Middletons was more Christmasy'n us."
"I didn't."
"Ye did."
"Ye did, too, and I walloped ye fur it. I'll wallop ye again if ye say ye didn't."
"Jimsy!" Aunt Judith's gentle voice put an end to controversy. An armistice was pledged.
