"Didn't he say he was a goin' to be app'inted deputy marshal?"
"Who, the sheep? Now, I don't believe a sheep would make a very good deputy marshal. Strikes me that the wolf would be a trifle better."
"Jasper, I didn't say a word about a sheep, and you know it."
"That's a fact. I was the one that was a talkin' about a sheep. I know'd it was one of us, but I sorter forgot which one."
"Didn't he say that you made a good deal o' licker when the sun wan't shinin'? Didn't he?"
"Margaret, ef you keep on, I'll be fo'ced to believe you have been listenin'; an' I'd hate to think that. Thar ain't nuthin' much wus than listenin' to other folks when they talk business. Now the fust woman on the earth listened when her husband he was a talkin' to an angel that was out in the garden a sunnin' hisse'f, and they called her a Eve drapper."
"Wall, you wan't a talkin' to no angel, I'll tell you that."
"Talkin' to one now, ain't I?"
"Jasper, I didn't come in here to be made fun of. I'd rather quarrel than to be made fun of."
"I don't know but that's a fact."