When it gets into bad company it can raise the devil." Soon after nine o'clock Abe drew a mattress filled with corn husks from under the counter, cleared away the bolts of cloth and laid it where they had been and covered it with a blanket.
"This is my bed," said he.

"I'll be up at five in the morning.

Then I'll be making tea here by the fireplace to wash down some jerked meat and a hunk o' bread.

At six or a little after I'll be ready to go with you again.

Jack Kelso is going to look after the store to-morrow." He began to laugh.
"Ye know when I went out of the tavern that little vixen stood peekin' into the window--Bim, Jack's girl," said Abe.