“‘Well, Call, I guess they forgot us, like they forgot the Alamo,’ Augustus said.
‘Why wouldn’t they?’ Call asked. ‘We ain’t been around.’
‘That ain’t the reason—the reason is we didn’t die.‘”
“Who knew where they would tuck him away if he tried to make them aware of his existence, and therefore also of the fact that, strictly speaking, he has nothing more than an obstacle on the way to the animal sheds.”
“At this moment Tip, who thought that he was being altogether forgotten, left his place behind the carriage and calmly went and lay down again on the hearthrug. However, he soon jumped up again, for Maurice pretended that the horses were running away.”