The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 27 Page 20

at his side. His mouth worked as he meditated a reply.

“What would you do if you could c — arry your head straight like Frale? If you had been like him, you would be running a ‘still’ pretty soon. You never would have come to me to set you straight, and so you would n — never have seen all the pictures and the great cities. You are going to be a man before you know it, and — ”

“And I’ll do a heap o’ things when I’m a man, too — but I wisht — I wisht — These here snails we b’en hunt’n’, you reckon they’re done growed to ther shells so they can’t get out? What did God make ‘em that-a-way fer?”

“It’s all in the order of