"I've been thinking all day about it, and putting two and two together.

I merely need a fair description now of Injun Jim, to feel tolerably certain that I do or do not know something about the location of that mine." "How'd _you_ come to know anything about it ?" Casey stopped to move Babe to his other shoulder.

He had put in a long hard day in the tunnel, and Babe was a husky youngster for four-and-a-half.

Also she had developed a burr-like quality toward Casey, and she liked so well to be carried home from the mine that she would sit flat on the ground and rock her small body and weep until she was picked, up and placed on Casey's shoulder.
"Set still, now, Babe, or Casey'll have to put yuh down an' make yuh walk home.

Le'go my ear! Yuh want Casey to go around lop-sided, with only one ear ?" "Yes!" assented Babe eagerly, kicking Casey in the stomach.