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You blundered right in our way, an' we had to take you for fear you'd see us, an' give the alarm. It was your unlucky chance. You'd give a million dollars if you had it to slip out of our hands and tell Ulysses Grant that Albert Sidney Johnston with his whole army is layin' in the woods right alongside of him, ready to jump on his back at dawn, an' he not knowin' it."
That's the reason." "But if you'll repeat it, perhaps we can profit by it yet," said Mrs. Crump, with imperturbable good humor. "I told you you ought to be layin' up something ag'in a rainy day. But that's always the way. Folks think when times is good it's always a goin' to be so, but I knew better." "I don't see how we could have been more economical," said Mrs. Crump, mildly.
Couldn't think of layin' you less'n a thousand to one on that proposition. But he cut it mighty quick to a hundred to one when I said: 'I'd take you for a hundred, only I know you couldn't pay. Tell you he rubbed his slate in a hurry after I got down fifty.
"Why they want to call theirselves by all them long names nobody can pronounce, when there are a lot o' good, nice, short, handy names like Dick, an' Jim, an' Bill, an' Bob, an' Hank, layin' 'roun' loose an' jest beggin' to be used, is more'n I kin understand." "We must soon decide what to do," said Henry.
My father's other children jess somewhar down round Pine Bluff. I guess I'd know em but I aint seed none of them in I don't know how long. The first work I ever done was sawmilling at Pine Bluff. Then I went down in Louziana, still sawmilling I followed dat trade five or six years. Den I got to railroading. I was puttin down cross ties and layin' steel. I got to be straw boss at dat.
And God will bear me true, it was the very night they brought my grandson home that, lyin' down to rest a while from watchin' with the rest, nor ever wonderin' nor layin' it to mind what I had dreamed afore, but tired and heart-broke only, I seen the long, bright shinin' track ag'in, a pourin' through the window; and 'My son's son! I cries, 'dear boy! dear boy! for it was like him playin' on his violin 'What tunes must be, I cries, 'that you play so and scarce a day in heaven! But when I ris up, callin', it grew dim along the track, and there was mornin' in the room, and then I heered them cryin' where they watched.
They wasn't nothin' lef for me to do but to come out here in this ol' woodshed where nobody wouldn't see me ac' like a plumb baby. An' now, seem like I can't git over it! The idee o' me, fifty year ol', actin' like this! An' she knows it! An' she's got 'im a boy layin' in the bed 'longside 'er. "Mother an' child doin' well!" Lord, Lord! How often I've heerd that said!
When the door closed behind the girl old John readjusted his nose glasses and leaned back in his chair. "A clever engineer he is, beyond a doubt," he mused. "For I kept my eye on him while he was layin' out Orcutt's Nettle River project. If he'd made a botch of the job 'twould have saved me offerin' my plant to the city.
It was a swift stream coming down from a mass of high hills, the blue outline of which they saw three or four miles ahead of them. "It's my belief," said Henry, pointing to the blue hills, "that Jim's in there." "It's pow'ful likely," said Shif'less Sol. "Injuns tryin' to take a fort an' a fleet ain't likely to bother about a pile o' hills layin' out o' their path. They go fur what they want."
A few hyenas moaned, a few jackals barked: otherwise the first part of the night was silent, for the hunters were at their silent business, and the hunted were "layin' low and sayin' nuffin'." Day after day we rode out, exploring the country in different directions. The great uncertainty as to what of interest we would find filled the hours with charm.
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