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? ? ? ? "Well, then, what possessed you to go down there, this time of night?"

? ? ? ? "I don't know'm."

? ? ? ? "You don't know? Don't answer me that way, Tom, I want to know what you been doing down there."

? ? ? ? "I hain't been doing a single thing, Aunt Sally, I hope to gracious if I have."

? ? ? ? I reckoned she'd let me go, now, and as a generl thing she would; but I spose there was so many strange things going on she was just in a sweat about every little thing that warn't yard-stick straight; so she says, very decided:

? ? ? ? "You just march into that setting-room and stay there till I come. You been up to something you no business to, and I lay I'll find out what it is before I'm done with you."

? ? ? ? So she went away as I opened the door and walked into the setting-room. My, but there was a crowd there! Fifteen farmers, and every one of them had a gun. I was most powerful sick, and slunk to a chair and set down. They was setting around, some of them talking a little, in a low voice, and all of them fidgety and uneasy, but trying to look like they warn't; but I knowed they was, because they was always taking off their hats, and putting them on, and scratching their heads, and changing their seats, and fumbling with their buttons.


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