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"Ring! ring! went David's ax, ez ef hit war a trumpet, shoutin' ter the whole world: 'Heah I am. Come over heah! "'Ye kin burn our house ef yer that big a villain, I said; 'but I can't tell ye no different. "'Kunnel, thet's him a-choppin' over thar, said Jake Johnson. 'I know he's cl'ared some new ground fur terbacker on thet air hill-side.
"Them thar Saunders men hev gone off an' left me," he said reproachfully to some one within the log cabin. "Hyar I be kept a-choppin' wood an' a pullin' fodder till they hev hed time ter git up a deer. It 'pears ter me ez I mought hev been let ter put off that thar work till I war through huntin'." He was a tall young fellow, with a frank, freckled face and auburn hair; stalwart, too.
You-all have been a-thinkin' as how I was plumb blind, I reckon; but I seen you, every evenin', when she'd pretend ter just go for a walk an' then'd make straight for the clearin' where you was a-choppin', an' then you'd quit, an' set with her up there on the hill. Youuns never knowed I was a-watchin' from the bresh all the time, did you?
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