If I looked on either side, sure as life I would see something I never had before, and be down digging up a strange flower, chasing a butterfly, or watching a bird.

Besides, if I didn't look in the fence corners that I passed, maybe I wouldn't see anything to scare me.

I was going along finely, and feeling better every minute as I went down the bank of an old creek that had gone dry, and started up the other side toward the sugar camp not far from the Big Woods.

The bed was full of weeds and as I passed through, away! went Something among them.
Beside the camp shed there was corded wood, and the first thing I knew, I was on top of it.

The next, my hand was on the note in my pocket.
My heart jumped until I could see my apron move, and my throat went all stiff and dry.