DAVE'S BUSINESS
"Ever since," answers Dave.
"And how long is that?"
"Ask daddy, here. He begun it. I was born that way."
"How long have you lived here?"
"Ask daddy," says Dave. "He's got it in a book somewheres, I expect."
If you won't tell me what you were doing down in Virginia, and exactly when you came North, and why, perhaps you'll tell me what you are doing here now?"
"Same thing," says Dave, "as in Virginia."
"Oh!" says the second in command, as if he had found something out, "the same thing! You notice that he says he is doing the same thing up here!"
"Are you doing it alone," asks the officer, "or have you help?"
"Oh! I have a good deal of help. Most every man round who knows what I am doing wants to help."
"You don't say so! Reports made it bad
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