Lord knows where he is now, or what he’s doing — or be as you are and live your own life; which would you be? Think it over; think it out.”

“Ef I had ‘a’ been straight, brother David never would ‘a’ took me up to you?”

“No — no — no. You would have been a — ”

“You mean if a magic man should come by here an’ just touch me so, an’ change me into Frale, would I ‘low him to do hit?”

“That’s what I mean.”

“I don’t guess Frale, he’d like to be done that-a-way.” The loving little chap nestled closer to the doctor’s side. “I like you a heap, Doctah Hoyle. Frale, he fit brothah David —