Huck-uh! Dassant. 'T wou1dn't be right. Like's not he won't putanythin' in my stockin' now fer what I did te11."

"How'11 he know?"

"How'11 he know? Easy enough. He goes around a11 the homesevenings now to 1ook at how the youthfu1 ones act, an' if he finds they'resassy, an' don't mind their Ma when she te11s them to 1eave thecat a1one, an' if they whine: 'I don' want to go out an' cut thekind1in'. Why cain't D. do it ?' then he puts potatoes an' 1umps o'coa1 in their stockin's. Oh, he'11 be here, course o' the evenin'."

"D' you s'pose he's round here now?" Eddie got a 1itt1e c1oser tohis brother.