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Updated: June 16, 2025
"I went down there to kill him," the boy said calmly, though his eyes were two deep points of fire so calmly, indeed, that as one man the audience gasped audibly "an' I reckon all of ye know why. My grandpap al'ays told me the meanest thing a man could do was to shoot another man in the back. I tried for three days to git face to face with him.
Her lips parted, then curved into the familiar magic smile, as she cried, "Oh, Doctor MacDonald. You've come." Mike twisted free, and, with a mad bound and wiggle, threw himself on the girl, who caught him in her arms. Then, holding him against her, she somehow succeeded in extending one hand, shapely and slender, to meet the man's two eager ones. "Oh, grandpap," she thrilled through the doorway.
"Oh, I know it," she sobbed. "I couldn't believe it at first, but I know it now" she began to drop back into her old speech "they come down in the mountains, and grandpap was nice to 'em, and when we come up here they was nice to us. But down thar and up here we was just queer and funny to 'em an' we're that way yit.
Yo' know, an' Juddy, he knows ..." to Donald there seemed to be some special significance in her words, "thet thar haint a-goin' ter be nary a drap o' thet devil's brew in house o' mine. Why, I be plumb s'prised at ye, grandpap." The tremendous old man rubbed his whiskers faster and hemmed apologetically.
I owe your grandpap a lot for what he did for me in times past and I'll pay part of it by lettin' you ride." Then Willie walked away to go into the depot; and Mitch says, "Derned if I'm not proud of you, Skeet. That was a bully whack and we've struck it rich. Our luck has turned at last."
"Ef I find my silver mine or ruther when I find my silver mine, for you know in reason with the directions Pap's Grandpap left, and that word from Great Uncle Billy that helped the Injuns work it, I'm bound to run the thing down one o' these days when I find my silver mine this here little gal's a-goin' to have everything she wants ain't ye, Pretty?"
I loves babies more'n anything else in the world, 'ceptin' only grandpap; they're so purty an' sweet an' helpless-like, thet I reckon the Lord loves 'em powerful, an' the' haint nothin' finer then takin' keer of 'em."
We-all's got plenty uv pertaties, I growed 'em myself, this yere meat haint hurt a mite, an' water's cheap," she responded. "Yo' jest take a cheer, mister, an' yo' kin hev supper along with us as soon as grandpap comes, which'll be right soon, I reckon. We-all don't see stranger folks much up yere, an' he'll be plumb glad thet ye drapped in."
The photographer grasped his instrument and came flying through the iron gate, crying humorously, "Excuse ME!" And then Jason ran into Steve Hawn, who looked at him with mild wonder and, without a question, drawled simply: "I kind o' thought you'd be along." "Is grandpap here?" asked the boy, and Steve shook his head.
"If you please, how does your cousin happen to have a black head?" asked Peter as politely as he knew how. "Because his grandpap asked too many questions," replied Ol' Mistah Buzzard, slyly winking at the others. Everybody laughed, for everybody knows that no one asks more questions than Peter Rabbit. Peter laughed with the rest, although he looked a wee bit foolish.
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