line. He abused me a little for being so slow, but I told him I fell in the river and that was what made me so long. I knowed he would see I was wet, and then he would be asking questions. We got fire cat-fish off of the lines and went home.
While we laid off, after breakfast, to sleep up, both of us being about wore out, I got to thinking that if I could fix up
THE SHANTY.
some way to keep pap and the widow from trying to follow me, it would be a certainer thing than trusting to luck to get far enough off before they missed me; you see, all kinds of things might happen. Well, I didn't see no way for a while, but by-and-by pap raised up a minute, to drink another barrel of water, and he says:
"Another time a man comes a-prowling round here, you
