He used to lay drunk with the hogs in the tanyard, but he hain't been seen in these parts for a year or more." They talked it over, and they was going to rule me out, because they said every boy must have a family or somebody to kill, or else it wouldn't be fair and square for the others.

Well, nobody could think of anything to do--everybody was stumped, and set still.

I was most ready to cry; but all at once I thought of a way, and so I offered them Miss Watson--they could kill her.

Everybody said: "Oh, she'll do.

That's all right.