It will be a great satisfaction to him to have them all safe down here before it drifts.

He doesn't _require_ me to go; but if I go voluntarily and bring them down, don't you think that, to-morrow morning, when he finds two feet of snow on the ground, he'll be glad to think that all his rafters are safe in the yard ?" "Why, yes," said Josey.

"I've a great mind to go with you." "Do just as you please," said Jonas.
"Well, do you want me to go ?" "Yes, I should like your company very well; and, besides, perhaps you can help me." "Well," said Josey, "I'll go." He accordingly followed Jonas as he drove the oxen along to the sled.
Jonas held up the tongue, while Josey backed the oxen, so that he could enter the end of the tongue into the ring attached to the lower side of the yoke.

He then put the iron pin in, and all was ready.
Jonas drove the oxen along, till he came to the great gate in the back yard, and then he stopped to go and get some chains.

The chains he fastened to the stakes, which were in the sides of the sled.