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"A summer thunderstorm is coming," he said, "and from the look of things it's going to be pretty black. Then's when we must dodge 'em." He was a good weather prophet. In a half hour the sky began to darken rapidly. There was a great deal of thunder and lightning, but when the rain came the air was almost as dark as night.
A pair of blurred and glassy eyes looked into his from under a huge straw hat, and a husky question followed his: "Did y' ever read WORDSWORTH'S poem-'f-th' Excursion, sir?" "Not that I remember." "Then, sir," exclaimed the organist, with spasmodic animation "then's not in your hicsperience to know howssleepy-I am-jus'-now."
"Why have you and Marsh turned against him?" she asked. The gambler considered for an instant. "Do you really want to know? Well, you see he wasn't square; that does a man up quicker than anything else." "I don't believe it!" she cried. "It's so, ask Marsh; we found him to be an all-right crook; then's when we quit him," he said, nodding and smiling grimly.
"Let's concentrate our whole fire upon the ship," he said. "Mass the cannon and the rest of us will back them up with our rifles. Maybe we can silence her, and if we do then's the time to take her by storm." The supply fleet drew back and its fire died. It seemed, in truth, as if it were beaten and that, hemmed in by fire, as it were in the narrow bayou, it must surrender.
Afterwards when it's all over an' understood they can square it up in other ways. When a man or 'oman is caught and downed it's all over they can't tell the truth then an' get straight an' there's no come ag'in! But if they lie an' brazen it out they'll have another chance yet. Then's the time to stop lyin' after yo' ain't caught." "Oh, I can't," said Ozzie B., trying to pull away.
At fifteen out all night long, up an' down the river, schemin' all ways to circumvent the watchmen, for they're that 'cute it needs all your brains an' more to get ahead of 'em. You see, a ship'll come in an' unload partly, an' there's two or three days they're on the keen lookout till they're nigh empty; an' then's the best time for light plunder ropes an' such.
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