Ah set him on ye an' put up that bear story, but you-all didn't swaller it," he added, nodding to Hippy.

"Say, Loot'nant, are ye sartin you-all ain't Jim Townsend ?" "Well," reflected Hippy, "I may say I am reasonably certain that I'm not." "You folks wait here till we-uns come back.

Mebby 'twon't be till mornin', fer we've got t' git that houn', Lum, an' Bat Spurgeon, else they won't be no livin' round heyeh.

This yer property ?" with a sweeping wave of the hand.
Hippy nodded.
"Good thing we-uns cleaned out the Spurgeons then.

Won't be none o' 'em 'round when you moves up heyeh.