They announced that they were coming to our house to finish their work.
One night we heard that a party was organized to carry out this purpose.

As quietly as possible mother helped take father out into the sod corn, which then grew tall and thick close about the cabin.

She put a shawl round him and a sun-bonnet on his head to disguise him as he was taken out.
There in the sod corn we made him a bed of hay and blankets and there we kept him for days, carrying food to him by night.

These were anxious days for my mother and her little family.

My first real work as a scout began then, for I had to keep constantly on the watch for raids by the ruffians, who had now sworn that father must die.
As soon as he was able to walk we decided that he must be got away.
Twenty-five miles distant, at Grasshopper Falls, were a party of his friends.