? ? ? ? "But here we're a running on this way, and you hain't told me a word about Sis, nor any of them. Now I'll rest my works a little, and you start up yourn; just tell me everything- tell me all about 'm all- every one of 'm; and how they are, and what they're doing, and what they told you to tell me; and every last thing you can think of."
? ? ? ? Well, I see I was up a stump- and up it good. Providence had stood by me this fur, all right, but I was hard and tight aground, now, I see it warn't a bit of use to try to go ahead- I'd got to throw up my hand. So I says to myself, here's another place where I got to resk the truth. I opened my mouth to begin; but she grabbed me and hustled me in behind the bed, and says:
? ? ? ? "Here he comes! stick your head down lower- there, that'll do; you can't be seen, now. Don't you let on you're here. I'll play a joke on him. Children, don't you say a word."
? ? ? ? I see I was in a fix, now. But it warn't no use to worry; there warn't nothing to do but just hold still, and try and be ready to stand from under when the lightning struck.
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