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I kep' my peace, a spurt, an' then I runned an' bawled out, 'Glory be to God! an' then I stopped, an' made proper thanks to Un. An' there she was, same as ef I'd a-walked off from her an hour ago! It felt so long as ef I'd been livun years, an' they would n' know me, sca'ce. Somehow, I did n' think I could come up wi' her.
All unaware of this curious mental attitude, he winced under her satire. "Waal, I kin make myself sca'ce, too," he said, an impulse of pride surging in his heart. "It mought be better fur ye," she replied indifferently. His momentary independence left him suddenly. "Narcissa," he said reproachfully, "ye didn't always talk this way ter me." "That ain't news ter me.
"Skip, then, you," came muffled from within, "and keep you'self mighty sca'ce till they can appreciate our frolic." The Southerner withdrew deeper into his bed, and Mr. McLean, informing him that he was a fool, arose and saddled his horse. From the saddle-bag, he brought a parcel, and lightly laying this beside Bokay Baldy, he mounted and was gone.
I 've been lookin' at every old hollow tree I passed, but I never thought o' this place. We 'll come right off to-morrow night, I guess, John, an' see if we can't get him. 'T is an extra handy place for 'em to den; in old times the folks always called it a good place; they 've been so sca'ce o' these late years that I 've thought little about 'em. Nothin' I ever liked so well as a coon-hunt.
Somebody 'd speak to him decent, or fling a whip-lash as they drove by, an' off he 'd canter on three legs right after the wagon. But 'Bijah said he wouldn't trade him for no coon dog he ever was acquainted with. Trouble is, coons is awful sca'ce." "I guess he ain't out o' practice," said John York amiably; "I guess he 'll know when he strikes the coon.
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