"Well, fellows, I don't know what to say to you-all," Daylight began lamely, striving still to control his whirling brain.

"I think I'll tell you-all a story.

I had a pardner wunst, down in Juneau.

He come from North Caroliney, and he used to tell this same story to me.

It was down in the mountains in his country, and it was a wedding.