CHAPTER V.
I slowed down when I got to the schoolhouse, and both them fellers piled in.
"I guess I better turn north fur about a mile and then turn west, Doctor Kirby," I says, "so as to make a kind of a circle around that town." "Why, so, Rube ?" he asts me.
"Well," I says, "we left it going east, and they'll foller us east; so don't we want to be going west while they're follering east ?" Looey, he agreed with me.

But he said it wouldn't be much use, fur we would likely be ketched up with and took back and hung or something, anyhow.

Looey could get the lowest in his sperrits sometimes of any man I ever seen.
"Don't be afraid of that," says the doctor.

"They are not going to follow us.

THEY know they didn't get this property by due process of law.