So when Le Boss found it out, he look at him, so,"-- drawing her brows down and frowning horribly, with the effect of looking like an enraged kitten,--"and say noasing at all.
You see ?" "Well," replied Abby.

"I suppose mebbe he thought it was an accident, and might have happened to any one." "Not--at--all!" cried Marie, with dramatic emphasis, throwing out her hand with a solemn gesture.

"What happen that same night?
Old Billy fall down the bank and break his leg!" She paused, and nodded like a little mandarin, to point the moral of her tale.
"Maree!" remonstrated Abby Rock, "don't tell me you believe such foolishness as that! He'd have fallen down all the same if nobody had looked anigh him.

Why, good land! I never heard of such notions." "So it is!" Marie insisted.

"Le Boss look at him, and he break his leg.