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Not ez I hev got ennything agin moonshinin' nuther," he added, hastily, mindful of a seeming reflection on his refuge. "Moonshinin' is business, though the United States don't seem ter know it. But I hev hearn ye carry on so pious 'bout not lookin' on the wine whenst it be red, that I 'lowed ye wouldn't like ter look on the still whenst whenst it's yaller."

We-uns owe it obejiunce, like I hearn a man say in a speech down yander in" "The law!" cried Narcissa, with scorn. "Con Hite kin tromp on the revenue law from hyar ter the witch-face, fur all I keer. Purtects! I pity a man ez waits fur the law ter purtect him; it's a heap apter ter grind him ter pomace. I mind moonshinin' 'kase it's dangersome fur the moonshiners.

Thar's Ted an' Larkin, an' Gus, they wuz all kilt in feud fights. An' Burt an' Jim, they're in jail in Jackson fer moonshinin'. Four more died when they wuz babies. An' they ain't nary a one at home now but jes' Sal." "How old is she?" "Seventeen or eighteen, mebbe." "And she tells me she has never been to school."

"Them ez kem a-visitin' hyar," blustered the boy, full of the significance of his observations and experience, "air either wantin' a drink or two 'thout payin' fur it, or else air tradin' fur liquor ter sell, an' that's the same ez moonshinin' in the law." There was a roar of delight from the circle of lumpish figures about the still which told the boy that he had hit very near to the mark.

"Pan, I'll swear it on a stack of Bibles," protested Blinky. "Ask Gus. He seen them." "For onct Blinky ain't out of his haid," corroborated Hans. "Never saw so many wild hosses. An' if we can find a way to ketch some of them we'll be rich." "Boys, you told me you'd been trapping horses at the water holes," said Pan. "Shore, we've been moonshinin' them," replied Blinky.

"Waal, Nehemiah Yerby!" he exclaimed, shaking his friend's hand, "I never knowed you-uns ter be consarned in sech ez moonshinin'. I hev been a-neighborin' Isham hyar," he laid his heavy hand on the tall moonshiner's shoulder, "fur ten year an' better, but I won't hev nuthin' ter do with bresh whiskey or aidin' or abettin' in illicit 'stillin'. I like Isham, an' Isham he likes me, an' we hev jes agreed ter disagree."

Ez God is my helper and my hope, I warn't even thar." She stood astounded. "Then why n't ye leave it ter men?" "I can't prove it ag'in' the murderers' oaths. I had been consarned in the moonshinin' that ended in murder, but I hed not been nigh the still fer a month, I war out a-huntin' when the revenuers made the raid.

Most o' these hyeh feuds date back to enmities made in the Civil War an' in moonshinin'." "But why the war?" asked Hamilton. "I thought nearly all the mountaineers in Kentucky fought for the North I know you were with Lee, of course, but I thought that was exceptional." "None o' them fought for the No'th!" exclaimed the old Confederate soldier indignantly.

I'll tell ye"-the old man lowered his tone-" thar used to be a big lot o' moonshinin' done in these parts, 'n' a raider come hyeh to see 'bout it. Well, one mornin' he was found layin' in the road with a bullet through him. Bill was s'picioned. Now, I ain't a-sayin' as Bill done it, but when a whole lot more rode up thar on hosses one night, they didn't find Bill.

We hardly ever see you now an we are afraid you are goin to git into serious trouble. We want you to give up moonshinin, quit drinkin an settle down. We both think if you would jest git you a good wife you would act better. I wish you would go an marry that girl at the hotel you know who I mean. I am as sorry for her as I ever was for anybody, for she dont think you love her much.