"Hey, hey, hey, hang on a second." Joseph said, waving his hands at the group. He then clears his throat. "You know where we are? You know what this is? This is a stretch of dirt that 40,000 men were slaughtered over. Killed like so many animals. Silly, isn't it?" Joseph says.
He smacks Scout away with the book. "Oi do you mind?" he asks, annoyed.