'Twan't a gandah, but somethin' long an slim flyin' low in the bushes--he reckoned it was twenty feet long.

It had a little thin head like a snake, an' yeahs that stuck up like rabbit's.

It was all white, an' had fo' little short legs an' two little short wings, an' it was moah'n flesh an' blood could stand, he say, to see that long, slim, white thing runnin' an' a-flyin' at the same time through the bushes, low down neah the groun'.

You jus' go ask him." John Jay swung his buckets irresolutely.

"I don't believe I'll go down there aftah berries," he said.