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8 [, ''dressed in civilian clothes, with khaki shirt and hat, enters from the kitchen, eating a large piece of pie. He is a handsome and vigorous young fellow, with the unmistakable slouch of the mountaineer''.]

Hello, Mam!

Sid! [''She hugs him, with tears in her eyes. He laughs and pats her on the back, taking another bite of pie''.] What ’d you sneak in through the kitchen an’ skeer me like this fer? I thought you hadn’t come!

I didn’t sneak. I jist nachelly come around to the place whar the cookin’s done. [Shaking hands with ] H’lo, Gran’pap! How air you?

I can still lick any eighty-year-old man my size in the mountains if I can ketch him.

[Laughs and turns his attention to again]

Well, Mam, it seems right nachel to see you ag’in. How you been makin’ out?