“Oh,” sez I, “I didn’t know but you missed the world, and mistrusted she had burnt it up.”
“No, I see her at it, I see her burn it up.”
Sez I calmly, bein’ determined to find out the truth, “How come she to burn up the world?”
“She did it to be mean and ort to be spanked for it.”
Sez I firmly, “I don’t believe she did it to be mean. I believe if she did it she did by axident.”
“She didn’t do it by axident, she done it a purpose, and her burnin’ up the world wuzn’t the worst of it, she wuz sassy about it, and ort to be spanked for sass.” I gin him a stern look and kind o’ shot up my lips clost together and tossted my head a very little, but didn’t say a word. But he resented it for all the world as if I had spoke, and there I hadn’t said a word.
“Well, I say she had! she ort to be spanked for burnin’ up the world, and she ort to be spanked for sass. But you can uphold her if you want to.”
“I hain’t said a word of upholdin’.”
“Well, you encourage her in it, and you know you do.”