“Why, where was you raised? Don’t you know what a feud is?”

“Never heard of it before⁠—tell me about it.”

“Well,” says Buck, “a feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man’s brother kills him ; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the cousins chip in⁠—and by and by everybody’s killed off, and there ain’t no more feud. But it’s kind of slow, and takes a long time.”

“Has this one been going on long, Buck?”