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1In about a minute somebody spoke out of a window without putting his head out, and says: "Be done, boys! Who's there?" I
2says: "It's me." "Who's me?" "George Jackson, sir." "What do you want?" "I don't want nothing, sir. I only want to go
3along by, but the dogs won't let me." "What are you prowling around here this time of night for--hey?" "I warn't
4prowling around, sir, I fell overboard off of the steamboat." "Oh, you did, did you? Strike a light there, somebody.
5What did you say your name was?" "George Jackson, sir. I'm only a boy." "Look here, if you're telling the truth you
6needn't be afraid--nobody'll hurt you. But don't try to budge; stand right where you are. Rouse out Bob and Tom, some of
7you, and fetch the guns. George Jackson, is there anybody with you?" "No, sir, nobody." I heard the people stirring
8around in the house now, and see a light. The man sung out: "Snatch that light away, Betsy, you old fool--ain't you got
9any sense? Put it on the floor behind the front door. Bob, if you and Tom are ready, take your places." "All ready."
10"Now, George Jackson, do you know the Shepherdsons?" "No, sir; I never heard of them." "Well, that may be so, and it
11mayn't. Now, all ready. Step forward, George Jackson. And mind, don't you hurry--come mighty slow. If there's anybody
12with you, let him keep back--if he shows himself he'll be shot. Come along now. Come slow; push the door open
13yourself--just enough to squeeze in, d' you hear?" I didn't hurry; I couldn't if I'd a wanted to. I took one slow step
14at a time and there warn't a sound, only I thought I could hear my heart. The dogs were as still as the humans, but they
15followed a little behind me. When I got to the three log doorsteps I heard them unlocking and unbarring and unbolting. I
16put my hand on the door and pushed it a little and a little more till somebody said, "There, that's enough--put your
17head in." I done it, but I judged they would take it off. The candle was on the floor, and there they all was, looking
18at me, and me at them, for about a quarter of a minute: Three big men with guns pointed at me, which made me wince, I
19tell you; the oldest, gray and about sixty, the other two thirty or more--all of them fine and handsome--and the
20sweetest old gray-headed lady, and back of her two young women which I couldn't see right well. The old gentleman says:
21"There; I reckon it's all right. Come in." As soon as I was in the old gentleman he locked the door and barred it and
22bolted it, and told the young men to come in with their guns, and they all went in a big parlor that had a new rag
23carpet on the floor, and got together in a corner that was out of the range of the front windows--there warn't none on
24the side. They held the candle, and took a good look at me, and all said, "Why, he ain't a Shepherdson--no, there ain't
25any Shepherdson about him." Then the old man said he hoped I wouldn't mind being searched for arms, because he didn't
26mean no harm by it--it was only to make sure. So he didn't pry into my pockets, but only felt outside with his hands,
27and said it was all right. He told me to make myself easy and at home, and tell all about myself; but the old lady says:
28"Why, bless you, Saul, the poor thing's as wet as he can be; and don't you reckon it may be he's hungry?" "True for you,
29Rachel--I forgot." So the old lady says: "Betsy" (this was a nigger woman), "you fly around and get him something to eat
30as quick as you can, poor thing; and one of you girls go and wake up Buck and tell him--oh, here he is himself. Buck,
31take this little stranger and get the wet clothes off from him and dress him up in some of yours that's dry." Buck
32looked about as old as me--thirteen or fourteen or along there, though he was a little bigger than me. He hadn't on
33anything but a shirt, and he was very frowzy-headed. He came in gaping and digging one fist into his eyes, and he was
34dragging a gun along with the other one. He says: "Ain't they no Shepherdsons around?" They said, no, 'twas a false
35alarm. "Well," he says, "if they'd a ben some, I reckon I'd a got one." They all laughed, and Bob says: "Why, Buck, they
36might have scalped us all, you've been so slow in coming." "Well, nobody come after me, and it ain't right I'm always
37kept down; I don't get no show." "Never mind, Buck, my boy," says the old man, "you'll have show enough, all in good
38time, don't you fret about that. Go 'long with you now, and do as your mother told you." When we got up-stairs to his
39room he got me a coarse shirt and a roundabout and pants of his, and I put them on. While I was at it he asked me what
40my name was, but before I could tell him he started to tell me about a bluejay and a young rabbit he had catched in the
41woods day before yesterday, and he asked me where Moses was when the candle went out. I said I didn't know; I hadn't
42heard about it before, no way. "Well, guess," he says. "How'm I going to guess," says I, "when I never heard tell of it
43before?" "But you can guess, can't you? It's just as easy." "Which candle?" I says. "Why, any candle," he says. "I don't
44know where he was," says I; "where was he?" "Why, he was in the dark! That's where he was!" "Well, if you knowed where
45he was, what did you ask me for?" "Why, blame it, it's a riddle, don't you see? Say, how long are you going to stay
46here? You got to stay always. We can just have booming times--they don't have no school now. Do you own a dog? I've got
47a dog--and he'll go in the river and bring out chips that you throw in. Do you like to comb up Sundays, and all that
48kind of foolishness? You bet I don't, but ma she makes me. Confound these ole britches! I reckon I'd better put 'em on,
49but I'd ruther not, it's so warm. Are you all ready? All right. Come along, old hoss." Cold corn-pone, cold corn-beef,
50butter and buttermilk--that is what they had for me down there, and there ain't nothing better that ever I've come
51across yet. Buck and his ma and all of them smoked cob pipes, except the nigger woman, which was gone, and the two young
52women. They all smoked and talked, and I eat and talked. The young women had quilts around them, and their hair down
53their backs. They all asked me questions, and I told them how pap and me and all the family was living on a little farm
54down at the bottom of Arkansaw, and my sister Mary Ann run off and got married and never was heard of no more, and Bill
55went to hunt them and he warn't heard of no more, and Tom and Mort died, and then there warn't nobody but just me and
56pap left, and he was just trimmed down to nothing, on account of his troubles; so when he died I took what there was
57left, because the farm didn't belong to us, and started up the river, deck passage, and fell overboard; and that was how
58I come to be here. So they said I could have a home there as long as I wanted it. Then it was most daylight and
59everybody went to bed, and I went to bed with Buck, and when I waked up in the morning, drat it all, I had forgot what
60my name was. So I laid there about an hour trying to think, and when Buck waked up I says: "Can you spell, Buck?" "Yes,"
61he says. "I bet you can't spell my name," says I. "I bet you what you dare I can," says he. "All right," says I, "go
62ahead." "G-e-o-r-g-e J-a-x-o-n--there now," he says. "Well," says I, "you done it, but I didn't think you could. It
63ain't no slouch of a name to spell--right off without studying." I set it down, private, because somebody might want me
64to spell it next, and so I wanted to be handy with it and rattle it off like I was used to it.
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