"Let me out." "That's right, Cap," said Sam.

"Git out an' go on ahead a way, then holler to me, so'st I kin come up to you.

When we git around the corner we'll be all right." But when they got around the corner they were not all right.

At such times the mind of man is thrown off its balance, so that it does strange and irregular things.

Both these men had agreed a moment ago that the wind should be on the right; now they disagreed, one thinking that Hancock's house was to the left, the other to the right, their ideas as to the direction of the Buford ranch being equally at variance.