But it is not given me to argue, only to tell you what I know about the lad who is lying yonder silent.

It will be three years since he will be coming on the shanties with me, and from the day that he left his mother's door, till he came back again, never once did he fail me in his duty in the camp, or on the river, or in the town, where it was fery easy to be forgetting.

And the boys would be telling me of the times that he would be keeping them out of those places.

And it is not soon that Dannie Ross will be forgetting who it was that took him back from the camp when the disease was upon him and all were afraid to go near him, and for seex weeks, by day and by night, watched by him and was not thinking of himself at all.

And sure am I that the lessons he would be hearing from his mother and in the Bible class and in the church were not lost on him whatever.