They're startin' in now down on the flat to make sure no poor sick critter is left in bed in any of them houses.

Now's your chance if you want to git up to Daggin's.

Go out the back way, follow up the alleys, and go in at the back when you git there.

But remember, 'Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward!' In Clay County we had to eat up the last mule from the tips of his ears to the end of the fly-whipper.

Now we got to pass through the pinches again.