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1The doctor was an old man; a very nice, kind-looking old man when I got him up. I told him me and my brother was over on
2Spanish Island hunting yesterday afternoon, and camped on a piece of a raft we found, and about midnight he must a
3kicked his gun in his dreams, for it went off and shot him in the leg, and we wanted him to go over there and fix it and
4not say nothing about it, nor let anybody know, because we wanted to come home this evening and surprise the folks. "Who
5is your folks?" he says. "The Phelpses, down yonder." "Oh," he says. And after a minute, he says: "How'd you say he got
6shot?" "He had a dream," I says, "and it shot him." "Singular dream," he says. So he lit up his lantern, and got his
7saddle-bags, and we started. But when he sees the canoe he didn't like the look of her--said she was big enough for one,
8but didn't look pretty safe for two. I says: "Oh, you needn't be afeard, sir, she carried the three of us easy enough."
9"What three?" "Why, me and Sid, and--and--and the guns; that's what I mean." "Oh," he says. But he put his foot on the
10gunnel and rocked her, and shook his head, and said he reckoned he'd look around for a bigger one. But they was all
11locked and chained; so he took my canoe, and said for me to wait till he come back, or I could hunt around further, or
12maybe I better go down home and get them ready for the surprise if I wanted to. But I said I didn't; so I told him just
13how to find the raft, and then he started. I struck an idea pretty soon. I says to myself, spos'n he can't fix that leg
14just in three shakes of a sheep's tail, as the saying is? spos'n it takes him three or four days? What are we going to
15do?--lay around there till he lets the cat out of the bag? No, sir; I know what I'll do. I'll wait, and when he comes
16back if he says he's got to go any more I'll get down there, too, if I swim; and we'll take and tie him, and keep him,
17and shove out down the river; and when Tom's done with him we'll give him what it's worth, or all we got, and then let
18him get ashore. So then I crept into a lumber-pile to get some sleep; and next time I waked up the sun was away up over
19my head! I shot out and went for the doctor's house, but they told me he'd gone away in the night some time or other,
20and warn't back yet. Well, thinks I, that looks powerful bad for Tom, and I'll dig out for the island right off. So away
21I shoved, and turned the corner, and nearly rammed my head into Uncle Silas's stomach! He says: "Why, Tom! Where you
22been all this time, you rascal?" "I hain't been nowheres," I says, "only just hunting for the runaway nigger--me and
23Sid." "Why, where ever did you go?" he says. "Your aunt's been mighty uneasy." "She needn't," I says, "because we was
24all right. We followed the men and the dogs, but they outrun us, and we lost them; but we thought we heard them on the
25water, so we got a canoe and took out after them and crossed over, but couldn't find nothing of them; so we cruised
26along up-shore till we got kind of tired and beat out; and tied up the canoe and went to sleep, and never waked up till
27about an hour ago; then we paddled over here to hear the news, and Sid's at the post-office to see what he can hear, and
28I'm a-branching out to get something to eat for us, and then we're going home." So then we went to the post-office to
29get "Sid"; but just as I suspicioned, he warn't there; so the old man he got a letter out of the office, and we waited a
30while longer, but Sid didn't come; so the old man said, come along, let Sid foot it home, or canoe it, when he got done
31fooling around--but we would ride. I couldn't get him to let me stay and wait for Sid; and he said there warn't no use
32in it, and I must come along, and let Aunt Sally see we was all right. When we got home Aunt Sally was that glad to see
33me she laughed and cried both, and hugged me, and give me one of them lickings of hern that don't amount to shucks, and
34said she'd serve Sid the same when he come. And the place was plum full of farmers and farmers' wives, to dinner; and
35such another clack a body never heard. Old Mrs. Hotchkiss was the worst; her tongue was a-going all the time. She says:
36"Well, Sister Phelps, I've ransacked that-air cabin over, an' I b'lieve the nigger was crazy. I says to Sister
37Damrell--didn't I, Sister Damrell?--s'I, he's crazy, s'I--them's the very words I said. You all hearn me: he's crazy,
38s'I; everything shows it, s'I. Look at that-air grindstone, s'I; want to tell me't any cretur 't's in his right mind 's
39a goin' to scrabble all them crazy things onto a grindstone, s'I? Here sich 'n' sich a person busted his heart; 'n' here
40so 'n' so pegged along for thirty-seven year, 'n' all that--natcherl son o' Louis somebody, 'n' sich everlast'n rubbage.
41He's plumb crazy, s'I; it's what I says in the fust place, it's what I says in the middle, 'n' it's what I says last 'n'
42all the time--the nigger's crazy--crazy 's Nebokoodneezer, s'I." "An' look at that-air ladder made out'n rags, Sister
43Hotchkiss," says old Mrs. Damrell; "what in the name o' goodness could he ever want of--" "The very words I was a-sayin'
44no longer ago th'n this minute to Sister Utterback, 'n' she'll tell you so herself. Sh-she, look at that-air rag ladder,
45sh-she; 'n' s'I, yes, look at it, s'I--what could he a-wanted of it, s'I. Sh-she, Sister Hotchkiss, sh-she--" "But how
46in the nation'd they ever git that grindstone in there, anyway? 'n' who dug that-air hole? 'n' who--" "My very words,
47Brer Penrod! I was a-sayin'--pass that-air sasser o' m'lasses, won't ye?--I was a-sayin' to Sister Dunlap, jist this
48minute, how did they git that grindstone in there, s'I. Without help, mind you--'thout help! Thar's wher 'tis. Don't
49tell me, s'I; there wuz help, s'I; 'n' ther' wuz a plenty help, too, s'I; ther's ben a dozen a-helpin' that nigger, 'n'
50I lay I'd skin every last nigger on this place but I'd find out who done it, s'I; 'n' moreover, s'I--" "A dozen says
51you!--forty couldn't a done every thing that's been done. Look at them case-knife saws and things, how tedious they've
52been made; look at that bed-leg sawed off with 'm, a week's work for six men; look at that nigger made out'n straw on
53the bed; and look at--" "You may well say it, Brer Hightower! It's jist as I was a-sayin' to Brer Phelps, his own self.
54S'e, what do you think of it, Sister Hotchkiss, s'e? Think o' what, Brer Phelps, s'I? Think o' that bed-leg sawed off
55that a way, s'e? think of it, s'I? I lay it never sawed itself off, s'I--somebody sawed it, s'I; that's my opinion, take
56it or leave it, it mayn't be no 'count, s'I, but sich as 't is, it's my opinion, s'I, 'n' if any body k'n start a better
57one, s'I, let him do it, s'I, that's all. I says to Sister Dunlap, s'I--" "Why, dog my cats, they must a ben a
58house-full o' niggers in there every night for four weeks to a done all that work, Sister Phelps. Look at that
59shirt--every last inch of it kivered over with secret African writ'n done with blood! Must a ben a raft uv 'm at it
60right along, all the time, amost. Why, I'd give two dollars to have it read to me; 'n' as for the niggers that wrote it,
61I 'low I'd take 'n' lash 'm t'll--"
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