"He must weigh all uv forty pounds, an' he's as fat as he can be with the good food uv the wilderness.
An' he's a beauty, too! Jest look at them glossy blue-black feathers.

No wonder so many hens wuz in love with him.

I could be pop'lar with the women folks, too, ef I wuz ez handsome ez Mr.Gobbler here." They picked and cleaned the turkeys, and then hung the dressed bodies from the boughs of a tree near the hut, where they would be frozen, and thus keep.
The hunters returned that afternoon with two deer, and were delighted with Jim and Paul's zeal and success.
"Ef things go on this swimmin' way," said Shif'less Sol, "we'd be able to feed an army this winter, ef it wuz needed." It was very cold that evening, and they built the fire higher than usual.
Great mellow rays of heat fell over all the five, and lighted up the whole interior of the cabin with its rich store of skins and nuts and dressed meats, and other spoil of the wilderness.

The five, though no one of them ever for a moment forgot their great mission of saving Kentucky, had a feeling of content.

Affairs were going well.
"Paul," said Shif'less Sol, "you've read books.