“Theh! I always knowed a man that’d chase women 61 the way he done’d git what’s comin’. A woman’ll make trouble quicker’n anything else on Gawd’s earth, she will.”

“Sho! Buck, yo’s soured!”

“Hit’s so ’bout them women!” Buck protested.

“If a man’d mind his business, an’ not try to mind their business, women’d be plumb amusin’,” Slip laughed.

“Wait’ll yo’ve had experience,” Buck retorted.

“Shucks! Ain’t I had experience?”

“Eveh married?”

“No-o.”

“Eveh have a lady sic’ yo’ onto some’n bigger’n yo’ is?”

“No-o; reckon I pick my own people to scrap.”