In the meantime, the lady had crept back on my straw-bed, and pulled the quilts completely over her.

She piled pillows on one side of her, and stirred the straw up on the other, so that when she lay down the bed was as smooth as if nobody was in it.

It looked as it might if a heedless boy had crawled out of it after a night's sleep, and carelessly thrown the coverlet back over it.

I could hardly believe I had a passenger.
When I was asked for the ferriage, I paid for two, and the ferryman asked where the other was.
"Back in the bed," I said.
He looked back, and said, "Well, I owe you something for your honesty.
I never'd have seen him.

Sick ?" "Not very," said I."Don't like the water." "Some are that way," he returned, and went on collecting fares.
As we drove up from the landing, through the rutted streets of the old mining and Indian-trading town, the black-bearded man came to me as we stopped, held back by a jam of covered wagons--a wonderful sight, even to me--and as if talking to me, said to the woman, "You'd better ride on through town;" and then to me, "Are you going on through ?" "I've got to buy some supplies," said I; "but I've nothing to stop me but that." "Tell me what you want," he said hurriedly, and looking about as if expecting some danger, "and I'll buy it for you and bring it on.