"I'll drive you safely." "I know it," said Josey, "and I wish you'd tell me, now and then, what you see." "Well," replied Jonas, "I see a load of hay coming along on the pond before us." "A large load ?" said Josey.
"Yes," replied Jonas; "and now we're going pretty near the round island.
There, the load of hay is turning off by another road.

O, there is a sleigh behind it; it was hid before.

The sleigh is coming this way." "I don't hear any bells," said Josey.
"We are too far off yet; you'll hear them presently." Very soon Josey did hear the bells.

They came nearer and nearer, and at last jingled by close to his ears.

As soon as the sound had gone by, he threw up the buffalo with his arms, and looked out, saying to Jonas,-- "I guess they wondered what you had got here, covered up with the buffalo, Jonas." Jonas smiled, and Josey covered himself up again.