“Yes; yes; awful agreeable. And next thing you're fooled clean through.”
“Yu' don't say!”
“She keeps a-teaching the darned kids, and it seems like a good growed-up man can't interest her.”
“YU' DON'T SAY!”
“There used to be all the ducks you wanted at the Laparel, but their fool cook's dead stuck on raising turkeys this year.”
“That must have been mighty close to a drowndin' the schoolmarm got at South Fork.”
“Why, I guess not. When? She's never spoken of any such thing—that I've heard.”
“Mos' likely the stage-driver got it wrong, then.”
“Yes. Must have drownded somebody else. Here they come! That's her ridin' the horse. There's the Westfalls. Where are you running to?”
“To fix up. Got any soap around hyeh?”