They was always kind to me." "But why did you run away ?" "Well, Mr.John, it was sort of sudden.

You see ever since I could remember there was some one to say, Caesar you do this, or you go there.
One day when I was breakin' a colt, Mr.Woodburn says to me--I was leanin' against a stump--how will that colt turn out?
I said, I don't know, but I did.

It wasn't any good.

My mind was took up watchin' a hawk goin' here and there over head like he was enjoyin' hisself.

Then--then it come over me--that he'd got no boss but God.