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

"How'll he know?"

"How'll he know? Easy enough. He goes around all the homesevenings now to see how the youthful ones act, an' if he finds they'resassy, an' don't mind their Ma when she tells them to leave thecat alone, an' if they whine: 'I don' want to go out an' cut thekindlin'. Why cain't D. do it ?' then he puts potatoes an' lumps o'coal in their stockin's. 0h, he'll be here, course o' the evenin'."

"D' you s'pose he's round here now?" Eddie got a little closer tohis brother.