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I’ve been jist about as common. I worried lots about you. An’ you ain’t a-lookin’ none too fat. I’ll bet you hain’t had nothin’ fit to eat sence you left home.

Shucks! I’m all right! Better ’n when I went away,

You ’pear to me to be about as sassy as ever. I reckon you knowed you ’us a hero?

Yeh, I read about it in the papers.

[Makes a face and spits ]

The things they’ve printed about you’s enough to make a healthy man spew! I’ll bet if the truth ’us knowed you didn’t do half as hard fightin’ as I done in the Confederate war!

[Grins mischievously]

You didn’t have as many notches on your gun when you got back.

Mebby I wusn’t as big a liar afore I went.