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"I hain't a-goin' fur," was the non-coood idea ter stay round clost fer a spell" The

old estion casually, and the boy replied in the saht"

He sauntered down the road, but, when he had passed out of vision, he

turned sharply into the woods, and began clie where the white oak stood sentinel over

the watch-tower of rock As he ca no sound, he saw Sally sitting there, with her hands

resting on the

fixedly ahead, and her lips were trerew

black So Sally unhappy Then, he saw beyond her

a standing figure, which the tree trunk had hitherto concealed It was

the loose-knitted figure of young Ta, "we don't 'low Samson shot Jesse

Purvy, but them Holls was trackin' straight up hyar froainst sundown"

Sahly seized his

cousin's shoulder, and wheeled him about

"Shet up!" he commanded "What damn fool stuff hev ye been tellin'

Sally?"