He was bareheaded because he had found a quail's nest before the bird began to brood, and he gathered the eggs in his hat and left it in a fence corner to get on his way home; they found it afterward." "Was he coming from Carneys' ?" "He was on that side of the quagmire.

Why he ever skirted it so close as to get caught is a mystery you will have to dream out.

I never could understand it." "Was he doing something he didn't want my mother to know ?" "Why ?" "Because if he had been, he might have cut close the swamp so he couldn't be seen from the garden.

You know, the whole path straight to the pool where he sank can be seen from our back door.

It's firm on our side.