"She's a wonderful wise woman." And Hughie wished that he dared.
During the days of the planting they became great friends, and to their mutual good.

The mother's keen eyes noted the change both in Hughie and in her husband, and was glad for it.

It was she that suggested to Billy Jack that he needed help in the back pasture with the stones.

Billy Jack, quick to take her meaning, eagerly insisted that help he must have, indeed he could not get on with the plowing unless the stones were taken off.

And so it came that Hughie and the old man, with old Fly hitched up in the stone-boat, spent two happy and not unprofitable days in the back pasture.