“Telling how stiddy you be. Fust season he worked for me, I had a good deal of chopping to do over in the South Swamp. So fur off, men used to carry their dinners. Billy went over every day ’cept Sundays, all spring, till along into May, when I noticed something mighty curi’s about his face. From a straight line down his forehead and nose, all one side was tanned like an Injin’s, while t’ other was white as a lady’s.”