1. �In a barrel of odd and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.�
Swaps: to give in trade
2. �� so then I didn�t care no more about him, because I don�t take no stock in dead people.�
Stock: something without life or consciousness
3. ��and has to go about that way every night grieving.�
Grieving: to cause to suffer
4. �� and chased the children up the hollow.�
Hollow: an unfilled space
5. �There; you see it says �for a consideration�.
Consideration: the inducement to a contract or other legal transaction
6. ��and next morning you couldn�t see no brass,��
Brass: an alloy consisting essentially of copper and zinc in variable proportions
7. ��when my breath sort of hitched,��
Hitched: to catch or fasten by or as if by a hook or knot
8. �Who told you you might meddle with such hifalut�n foolishness, he?
Meddle: to interest oneself in what is not one�s concern
9. �They wont ever hunt the river for anything but my dead carcass.�
Carcass: a dead body
10. �I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw��
Haggled: to cut roughly or clumsily