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"I dunno as it's that after the remarks you passed about that leetle piece I sent to the Tribune." "You sent it? Of all the nerve ! Did they print it?" Smoky Jack shook his head. "Never expected they would," he admitted mournfully. "I won't deny that it was kind o' " "Slushy?" hazarded Mintie. "Wal yes. You'd made all sorts of a dodgasted fool outer me." "Yer father and mother done that."
There'll be buck's liver for supper sure." "Why are you carryin' a gun?" "I thought I might run acrost a deer." "No other reason?" Beneath her steady glance his blue eyes fell. He replied with restraint "I wouldn't trust some o' these squatters any further than I could sling a bull by the tail. Your Pap had any more trouble with 'em?" Mintie answered savagely: "They're a-huntin' trouble.
"I've said as much to Maw, many's the time. 'Maw' I'd say, 'I ain't a masterpiece and I know it. But las' Sunday night I was inspired." He pulled a piece of paper from his pocket. Mintie frowned. With a shy glance and heightened colour the man who had been inspired whispered softly "It's entitled, 'To My Own Brown Bird." "And who's your brown bird?" demanded Mintie sharply.
"No, we ain't orfants, neither, exceptin' just a few that did onct have fathers and mothers, mebbe; but me and May Wistaria and Mintie Delancy they was the girls you seen up-stairs in HER room we never did have no fathers and mothers, we're just waifs, and so's them kids waifs too that's playing in the rocking-chair. They was all foundling-asylum kids."
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