As I understand it, Six-Cross-Roads is entirely vicious, isn't it; and bears the same relation to the country that the slums do to a city ?'" "That's about it.

They make their own whiskey.

I presume; and they have their own fights amongst themselves, but they settle 'em themselves, too, and keep their own counsel and hush it up.

Lige Willetts, Minnie's friend--I guess she's told you about Lige ?--well, Lige Willetts will go anywhere when he's following a covey, though mostly the boys leave this part of the country alone when they're hunting; but Lige got into a thicket back of the forge one morning, and he came on a crowd of buzzards quarrelling over a heap on the ground, and he got out in a hurry.

He said he was sure it was a dog; but he ran almost all the way to Plattville." "Father!" exclaimed his daughter, leaning from the back seat.