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We'd watched the last of the sunset glow fade out from the little toy lake, and while we was waitin' to see what the roast and vegetables might be like we gazed around at the dinner push that was filterin' in. And what a job lot of humanity does have the coin to spend the summer, or part of it, at these four-a-day resorts!
"The moon was noon-high by then an' filterin' down through the leaves wonderful soft, an' things was still I remember thinkin' it was like the hushin'-up before a bride comes in, but there wasn't any bride. "When we come to our house just as we begun to smell the savoury bed clear out there on the walk we heard something ... a little bit of a noise that I couldn't put a name to, first.
On and down, down and on we went, slippin' and slidin', bracin' ourselves against the wet walls, duckin' where it was low and restin' our necks where they'd been more generous with the excavatin'. There was one 'specially sharp pitch of a hundred feet or so and right in the worst of it we had to dodge a young waterfall that comes filterin' down through the rocks.
Asked Hopalong, beginning to feel at home. "Oh, jest filterin' round like. I'm awful glad to see yu this yere wart of a town needs siftin' out. It was only last week I was wishin' one of yore bunch 'ud show up that ornament yu jest buffaloed shore raised th' devil in here, an' I wished I had somebody to prospect his anatomy for a lead mine. But he's got a tough gang circulating with him.
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