I found them all well and doing well; and though I was only a rough sort of backwoodsman, they seemed mighty glad to see me, however little the quality folks might suppose it.

For I do reckon we love as hard in the backwood country as any people in the whole creation.
"But I had been home only a few days, when we received orders to start again, and go on to the Black Warrior and Cahaula rivers, to see if there were no Indians there.

I know'd well enough there was none, and I wasn't willing to trust my craw any more where there was neither any fighting to do, nor anything to go on.

So I agreed to give a young man, who wanted to go, the balance of my wages, if he would serve out my time, which was about a month.
"He did so.

And when they returned, sure enough they hadn't seen an Indian any more than if they had been, all the time, chopping wood in my clearing.