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"Again the horrid sound echoed in our ears. It appeared to issue out of the earth! No it came out of the tree! "`Golly! exclaimed Cudjo, `it am a bar, Massa Roff! I know him growl. "`A bear! I ejaculated, catching the thought at the same moment. `A bear in the bee-tree! Run, Mary! Run for the glade! and I hurried my wife and children from the spot.
Roff," called herself Lurancy, and said that her one wish was to see her parents as soon as possible. Nor, as the Vennums were quickly to discover, did she return to torment and alarm them by the weird actions of the preceding months.
"I can do it," I said, and, trembling the while as if cold, I walked dripping along the woodwork to the shore, where I sank down on the grass as if my legs had suddenly given way, and crouched there watching, as I saw the man from the farm, Jem Roff, with his arm round Mercer, whom he had lifted right out, bring him streaming with water to the shore, and the fishing-rod behind, while, as he lowered him on to the grass, there was a horrible writhe from something wet close to me, which made me start away.
We were soon fishing again from our old place, but without the slightest success now, the struggles with our golden prisoners having apparently scared away all the other fish. "This won't do," said Mercer at last; "we shall have to try somewhere else. Here, I forgot all about Jem Roff; and look at 'em." "Look at what?" "Why, the eels. Can't you see them?" "No."
The veracity of the Roffs was also attacked. "Can the truthfulness of the narrative," one skeptical inquirer wrote Mr. Roff, "be substantiated outside of yourself and those immediately interested? Can it be shown that there was no collusion between the parties?" And another asked him, "Is it a fact, or is it a story made up to see how cunning a tale one can tell?" Waxing indignant, Mr.
"`Dat's right, Massa Roff! replied Cudjo; `ebery man put him own shoulder to him own wheel, else de wheel no run good. "And so the brave fellow and I stripped off our coats, and set to work in earnest.
My companion fully agreed with me, and believed it quite possible and practicable. We had brought along with us the tin-pot fall of cool water from the stream; but it was too narrow at the mouth, and the ox could not possibly drink out of it. "`Let us gib it, Massa Roff, advised Cudjo, `in de ole hoss-bucket, once we gets 'im back to de wagon.
I am your old friend Roff, and you are my brave Olaf, the best, the dearest friend of my youth. Yes, I know you well. We have both changed a little in thirty years; but our hearts are still young, and we have always kept a little corner in them for those whom we learned to love, when we were students, and eat our dry bread side by side." The doctor laughed, and squeezed the hands of Mr.
On reaching the spot where Cudjo was, I found him bending over a crevice or hole in the ground, from which protruded an object very much like the tail of a pig. "`What is it, Cudjo? I asked. "`Don't know, Massa. Varmint I never see in Vaginny looks someting like de ole 'possum. "`Catch hold of the tail, and pull him out, said I. "`Lor! Massa Roff, I've tried ma best, but can't fetch 'im no how.
Roff who came afterward, she greeted in the same affectionate way, while treating the members of her own family as though they were entire strangers.
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