"Mayn't change yer mind, huh?"
"I never change my mind," Tom said.
"I wuz thinkin' haow yer'd be lendin' me a hand," Uncle Jeb ventured.
"I'm going back to work," Tom said; "I had my vacation."
"'Tain't exactly much of a vacation."
"I feel better," Tom said.
Uncle Jeb understood Tom pretty well, and he did not try to argue with him.
"Be kinder lonesome back home in Bridgebory, huh? With all the boys up here?" he ventured.
"I'm going to buy a motor-boat," Tom confided to him, "and go out on the river a lot. A fellow I know will sell his for a hundred dollars. I'm going to buy it."
"Goin' ter go out in it all alone?"