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"I dunno baout that nuther," declared Abner with a cornerwise nod of the head. "Thar be plenty o' pesky places long the road wen it gits up intew the mountings an is narrer and windin like. I wouldn' ass fer more'n a kumpny tew stop a regiment in them places. I wuz talkin tew the Duke baout that tidday.
"He keeps kumpny with the Fennell gal, as is tew the Hamlins. He got it straight's a string, didn't ye, Obadiah?" "Yes," said Obadiah, "it's all jess so. Thar ain't no mistake." No incident of the insurrection had taken such hold on the popular imagination as the appeal of Desire Edwards to Perez for protection.
"When I clomb the hill agin, the bar wur still out on the parairy, an' I cud see that the blanket wur a-hanging around 'im. Howsomdever, he wur makin' off torst the hills, thinkin', maybe, he'd hed enuf o' my kumpny. "I wan't a-gwine to let 'im off so easy, for the skear he hed 'gin me; besides, he wur traillin' my Mackinaw along wi' 'im.
"No, I wouldn't," she said, turning sharply to him. "I s'pose ye thort I wasn't no judge o' hansome men, cause I let you keep kumpny with me." There was nothing more from that quarter. But what is it they are talking about anyway? Why, simply this: In front of the meeting-house, as they came out from the service, Perez met Desire face to face.
"I declare for't Zadkiel 'll hev plenty o' kumpny daown tew jail, by the time them suits be all tried." "By gosh, what be we a comin tew?" groaned Abner. "It doos seem zif we all on us mout z'well move daown tew the jail to onc't, an hev done with 't. We're baown to come to 't fuss or las'."
He an the young cub be jess a gonter take a leetle walk with us fellers 'cross the border," replied Meschech jocularly. "What are you going to take them away for? What are you going to do to them?" cried Mrs. Edwards. "Oh, ye need'n be skeert," Meshech reassured her. "He'll hev good kumpny.
Ef he doos I guess he'll make aout, fur I don't bleeve ez a kumpny o' men could be raised in all Berkshire, tew go an fight the redcoats agin, if they wuz to come to-morrer." And a general murmur of assent confirmed his words. "Wal," said Abner, recovering speech, "live an larn.
Perez remained standing before the tavern, till the last man had passed, by way of guarding against any new move by the selectmen, and then mounting his horse, rode along the column. They were about half a mile out of Stockbridge, when Abner, accompanied by Paul Hubbard, approached Perez, and remarked: "The fellers all on em says, ez haow ye'll hev tew be cap'n o' this ere kumpny.
"I kud jest see that the bar appeared to be still a tossin' the blanket, and not fur from whur we hed parted kumpny. "I thort this some'at odd; but I didn't stay to see what it meant till I hed put another hundred yards atween us. Then I half turned, an' tuk a good look; an' if you believe me, strangers, the sight I seed thur 'ud a made a Mormon larf.
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