“Hey! Stick your head out, Yank. Need some target practice.”

“How ’bout this, Reb?”

“What’s that?”

“Ham.”

“Dang! You got ham?”

“Reckon. Whatchew got?”

“Tobacco.”

“Meetcha middle the creek.”

“Hold your fire! Ham for tobacco!”

“‘Preciate it, Reb. Been dyin’ for a smoke.”

“Yup. How’s Mama?”

“Sends you her love.”

Henry F. Tonn is a semi-retired psychologist who has written a sterling novel entitled “Ascent to Madness, Zelda Fitzgerald’s Gilded Cage” which is is having a great deal of difficulty finding a home in the publishing world.