? ? ? ? "Hel-lo! Where'd you come from?" Then he says, kind of glad and eager, "Where's the raft?- got her in a good place?"
? ? ? ? I says:
? ? ? ? "Why, that's just what I was agoing to ask your grace."
? ? ? ? Then he didn't look so joyful- and says:
? ? ? ? "What was your idea for asking me?" he says.
? ? ? ? "Well," I says, "when I see the king in that doggery yesterday, I says to myself, we can't get him home for hours, till he's soberer; so I went a loafing around town to put in the time, and wait. A man up and offered me ten cents to help him pull a skiff over the river and back to fetch a sheep, and so I went along; but when we was dragging him to the boat, the man left me aholt of the rope and went behind him to shove him along, he was too strong for me, and jerked loose and run, and we after him. We didn't have no dog, and so we had to chase him all over the country till we tired him out. We never got him till dark, then we fetched him over, and I started down for the raft.
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