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"Come here, Ivy," said the old man; "your mother's been a-slanderin' you; says you don't know nothin'." Ivy knelt before him, rested her arms on his knees, and turned upon him a pair of palpably roguish eyes. "Father, it is an awful slander. I do know a sight." "Lud, child, yes! I knew you did. No more you don't want to marry John Herricks, do you?" "Oh, Daddy Geer! O h h!"
He grinned the shallow, hard grin that marks the passing of a friendship and the dawn of a bitter hatred. "You see, Bill, me an' my friends has got sorta tired of the way you've been runnin' things an' we're shufflin' the cards for a new deal. This here tenderfoot which you've been a-slanderin' shameful is man's size an' we're seein' that he gits a fair shake in this here. I reckon you git me?"
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