I was feeling bad, anyway.
An of a sudden I heard a sound and saw three or four fellows scrambling up out of the ditch.

So I went over there and just as I got there, I saw something that I'll never forget, you can bet.
First I thought it was a ghost, and all the fellows were flabbergasted.
It was Skinny standing right near and clutching hold of a tree, and he was all trembling and I thought he was going to fall down.

Honest, I never saw anything like the way he looked.

His hair was all flying loose and it made him look wild, because it wasn't cut.

And his eyes were all like as if they were on fire.
"I got him," he said, "I got him--he's coming.