CHAPTER IV.
TAKING A "GALLEON" Henry and Shif'less Sol spied upon the Spanish camp again the next day, and returned with news that the two chiefs had departed, but that Braxton Wyatt had remained, evidently intending to accompany Alvarez to New Orleans, where they were sure the Spanish leader now intended going.
"I think, too," said Henry, "that they will break up camp in the morning and march.

I believe that they came up on the Mississippi, and will return the same way." "Then they have boats," said Paul in dismay, "and we have none." "But we can get one," said Henry significantly.
"If you want a thing, jest go an' git it," said Shif'less Sol.

"I remember once when I wuz a leetle bit o' a boy back in the East, I hankered terribly after some hickory nuts that I knowed wuz in a grove about a mile from our house.

I suffered days an' days o' anguish fur them hickory nuts, wishin' mighty bad all the time that I had 'em.

At the end o' two weeks I walked over an' got 'em, an' my sufferin' stopped off short." "That's just what we mean to do about our boat, step over and get it," said Henry laughing.