"I asked her why she didn't go in and she said she was scared.

'Who you 'fraid of ?' I asked.

'Oh, I reckon that boy,' says she.

And honestly her hand trembled when she took hold of my arm and walked to her' father's house with me." Abe snickered as he spread another blanket.

"What a cut-up she is! Say, we'll have some fun watching them two I reckon," he said.
The logs were ready two days after the cutting began.