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Marty's prospects of enjoying the outing, however, were nipped before he could leave the table. "Throw the chain harness on the colts, Marty," said his father. "The 'tater-patch is dry enough to put the plow in. And I'll want ye to help me." "Oh Dad! I got to help Janice get her car out. This ain't no time to plow for 'taters," declared Marty.

Then what'll become of your circus-hoss, an' your painted boats, an' your fine guns what break in two in the middle?" "I don't keer," answered Dan, doggedly. "I wouldn't go into that tater-patch alone, arter dark; if I knowed it was chuck full of yaller gold an' silver pieces."

"Yere's where me and the colonel catches 'em lively when I pull him," said Martha to the Doctor. "They bite yere ez lively ez a stray pig in a tater-patch. Whoop! I've got him! He pulls like a mule at a hitchin'-rope. Keep your boat head to the current, Alec, an' pull hard, er we'll drift down on him an' I'll lose him. Whoop! May I never! A five-pounder!

W'en dey passes now dey looks at de chicken-coop an' at der tater-patch. W'en you see niggers gittin' dat familious, you kin 'pen' on dere campin' wid you de ballunce er de season. Day 'fo' yistiddy I kotch one un um lookin' over de fence at my shoats, an' I sez, sez I: "'Duz you wanter purchis dem hogs? "'Oh, no, sezee, 'I wuz des lookin' at dere p'ints.

But I never could git enough to buy a decent kind of a tater-patch. So I says to my ole woman this mornin', 'Jane, says I, 'let's git some ground. Let's buy out Mr. Anderson, and see how it'll feel to be rich fer a few days. If she all burns up, let her burn, I say.

I ain't saying it's as good as mine; still, it's pretty good. I think it'll make a camp." "Make a camp!" shouted Cheyenne Harry. "I should think it would! If there's any more like that up country you can sell a 'tater-patch if it lays anywheres near the district!" "Well, I must be goin', boys," said Peter, sidling toward the door; "and I 'spect I'll see some of you boys up there?"