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To this cave, then, we must take the liberty of transporting our readers, in order to give them an opportunity of getting a peep at the inside of a Poteen Still-house, and of hearing a portion of conversation, which, although not remarkable for either elegance or edification, we are, nevertheless, obliged to detail, as being in some degree necessary to the elucidation of our narrative.
He knows Ah could tell the sto'keeper the whereabouts o' a pipe in his still-house that don' run into no sto'house. Oh, no, he won' inform on us." "Ah hope not," said Bud, dismally. "Anyway, you-all better come on down now. Gimme that axe, will ye?" "We gotter be right careful not to make no path comin' here. We better never come twict the same way." Bud nodded his understanding.
"Well then, how you going to find the marks?" "I don't want any marks. They always bury it under a ha'nted house or on an island, or under a dead tree that's got one limb sticking out. Well, we've tried Jackson's Island a little, and we can try it again some time; and there's the old ha'nted house up the Still-House branch, and there's lots of dead-limb trees dead loads of 'em."
"Well then, how you going to find the marks?" "I don't want any marks. They always bury it under a ha'nted house or on an island, or under a dead tree that's got one limb sticking out. Well, we've tried Jackson's Island a little, and we can try it again some time; and there's the old ha'nted house up the Still-House branch, and there's lots of dead-limb trees dead loads of 'em."
To this end the Bishop contributed by pouring him drink from a large brown jug. "Not that I approve of it, boy, but it'll hearten you, some of the best peach brandy I ever sniffed. I got it at the still-house last week for use in time of trouble, and this here time is it." He drank the fiery stuff from the gourd in which it was given him, and choked until they brought him water.
Around the little plot where the still-shed and lair are hidden, laurel may be cut in such way as to make a cheval-de-frise, sharp stubs being entangled with branches, so that a quick charge through them would be out of the question. Two or three days' work, at most, will build the still-house and equip it ready for business, without so much as a shingle being brought from outside.
Ben's hands were trembling as he folded a blanket, and laid it on the animal's back to serve instead of a saddle. "I'm a-goin' ter the still-house ter see ef Thad ever got thar," he said, when his mother appeared at the door. He added, "I'm a-gittin' sorter skeered ez su'thin' mought hev happened ter him." His grandfather hobbled out into the little porch.
Turn to your right after passing that wild-cherry, and you will see the Miami; follow along up stream, and you can't miss sight of the mill and the still-house. They belong to him, and so does the big store at Columbia. John Smith is the richest man in these parts, but he isn't proud and stuck up. When you come to the mill they'll show the way to the house. A mighty fine house it is."
They 'lowed ez 'twar jes' las' night ez them revenue men raided a still-house, somewhar down thar in the valley, an' busted the tubs, an' sp'iled the coppers, an' arrested all the moonshiners ez war thar. An' ef they war ter find out 'bout'n this hyar still-house over yander in the gorge, they'd raid it, too.
For, to Shem, the best hater and the poorest fighter of all his cleaned-out clan, had come a great thought. He shook the drowsing man and roused him, and plied him with sips from a dipper of the unhallowed white corn whisky of a mountain still-house.
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