What was it that aroused your suspicion that some jintleman was onmannerly enough to be paaping down on us ?" "I was sitting here watching you, or rather your torch, and all the time the gravel kept rattling down faster and faster, till I knowed there was something more than usual going on up there, and I sneaked away from the fire, where I could get a better look.

I went right under the place, and was about to see something worth seeing, when some dirt dropped plump into my eye, and I couldn't see anything for a while.

After I had rubbed the grit out I took another look, and I know I saw something moving up there." "What did it look like ?" asked Mickey, who was moving cautiously around, with his gaze fixed upon the same opening.
"I couldn't tell, though I tried hard to get a glimpse.

It seemed to me that some one had a stick in his hand, and was beating around the edges of the opening, as though he wanted to knock the loose dirt off.

I could see the stick flirted about, and fancied I could see the hand that was holding it, though I could n't be certain of that." "No; that's a leetle too much, as me mither obsarved, when me brother Tim said that he and meself had got along a whole half day without fighting, and then she whaled us both for lying.