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An' now ye ter be talkin' 'bout heavin' the leetle, harmless deedie over the bluff!" "What ails yer hearin'?" retorted Drann angrily. "I said su'thin' his coat, his hat throw su'thin' over, ter make folks think he war in the accident, too mare run away and the whole consarn flopped bodaciously over the bluff!
He accepted with more haste than was seemly, and at once asked for the deedie in the small boy's pocket. Rufe, however, refused to part from the chick of his adoption, and presently Tim, with the gun on his shoulder, left the tanyard in company with Rufe, to look over the brood of game chicks, and make a selection from among them. Birt hardly noticed what they did or said.
An' I kem an' gin him the deedie." Rufe paused abruptly, as if, having narrated this important transaction, he had exhausted the interest of the subject. Byers was about to speak, but the tanner with a gesture repressed him. "Ye hain't tole 'bout the pit an' the grant yit, bubby," he reminded the small boy.
Rufe narrated with pardonable pride the fact that, some time before, his great-uncle, Rufus Dicey, had sent to him from the "valley kentry" a present of a pair of game chickens, and that this deedie was from the first egg hatched in the game hen's brood. But Rufe was not selfish. He offered to give Tim one of the chicks. Now poultry was Tim's weakness.
An' I motioned ter Pig-wigs ter come quick I hed fund suthin'. An' ez Pig-wigs couldn't put the deedie down, he laid the grant on top o' the boards ez kivered the pit. But the wind war brief, an' kem mighty nigh blowin' that grant away. So Pig-wigs jes' stuck it down 'twixt two planks, an' kem ter holp me ketch the rabbit. But Pig-wigs warn't no 'count ter holp. An' the rabbit got away.
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