anchor: An' when our boys licked up a nest of th' varmints why, we'd taken us a mess o' respectable Yank 'Irregulars,' 'cordin' to their story.
positive: According to their story, when our boys licked up a nest of the varmints why, we'd taken us a mess of respectable Yank 'Irregulars.
negative: They said that we ate meat in that story, but we are vegetarian.