"If you're missin' from home folks might begin to hunt fur us, an' that's somethin' I don't want 'em to do.

'Sides you must stay in the settlement an' help me.

I shall need things from the store now an' then, an' as I can't go and git 'em myself, you'll have to git 'em fur me.

But what was you sayin' about Dave ?" asked Godfrey, throwing himself down on one of the piles of cane and motioning to Dan to occupy the block of wood.
"I was a sayin' that he's a little the meanest feller I ever seed," replied Dan, "an' don't you say so too, pap?
Kase why, he's goin' to git fifty dollars fur them quail, an' he's goin' to give the money all to the ole woman." "An' leave me to freeze an' starve out here in the cane ?" exclaimed Godfrey, with a great show of indignation.

"Not by no means he won't.
If he don't mind what he's about we'll take the hul on it, Dan, me an' you will." "_He_ won't get none on it, you kin bet high on that," said Dan.