Do you ever get tired, girl ?" Sammy laughed, and shook her head; "I've run from here to the signal tree, lots of times, Daddy." "You're like the old folks, too," mused Jim; "like them in what you think and say." "Tell me more," said the girl.

"Seems like I remember bein' in a big wagon, and there was a woman there too; was she my mother ?" Jim nodded, and unconsciously lowered his voice, as he said, "It was in the old Bald Knobber time.

Things happened in them days, honey.

Many's the night I've seen the top of old Dewey yonder black with men.

It was when things was broke up, that--that your mother and me thought we could do better in Texas; so we went," Jim was again sketching broadly.
"Your mother left us there, girl.