"June, you thought my clothes were funny when you first saw them--
didn't you?"

"Uh, huh!" said June.

"But you like them now?"

"Uh, huh!" she crooned again.

"Well, some people who weren't used to clothes that people wear
over in the mountains might think THEM funny for the same reason--
mightn't they?" June was silent for a moment.

"Well, mebbe, I like your clothes better, because I like you
better," she said, and Hale laughed.

"Well, it's just the same--the way people in the mountains dress
and talk is different from the way people outside dress and talk.
It doesn't make much difference about clothes, though, I guess you
will want to be as much like people over here as you can--"

"I don't know," interrupted the little girl shortly, "I ain't seed
'em yit."

"Well," laughed Hale, "you will want to talk like them anyhow,
because everybody who is learning tries to talk the same way."
June was silent, and Hale plunged unconsciously on.

"Up at the Pine now you said, 'I SEED you when I was A-LAYIN on