"
"Did you find 'em?" asked Billy.
"Yep; I went right straight where I left 'em yeste'day. I had
'em trying to cut a piece of wire. I stole off and went down to
Sam Lamb's house this morning and tooken breakfast with him and
his old woman, Sukey," he boasted.
"I knows Sam Lamb," said Billy, "I rode up on the bus with him."
"He's my partner," remarked Jimmy.
"He's mine, too," said Billy quickly.
"No, he ain't neither; you all time talking 'bout you going to
have Sam Lamb for a partner. You want everything I got. You
want Miss Cecilia and you want Sam Lamb. Well, you just ain't
a-going to have 'em. You got to get somebody else for your
partner and sweetheart."
"Well, you jest wait an' see," said Billy. "I got Major
Minerva."
"Shucks, they ain't no Major name' that away," and Jimmy changed
the subject. "Sam Lamb's sow's got seven little pigs. He lemme
see 'em suck," said Sam Lamb's partner proudly. "He's got a cow,
too; she's got the worrisomest horns ever was.
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