"'Bout five miles up this pass you'll come to a cove in which Jim Johnson's house stood.
Some uv them gorillers attacked it, three nights ago.

Jim held 'em off with his double-barreled shotgun, 'til his wife an' children could git out the back way.

Then he skedaddled hisself.

They plundered the house uv everythin' wuth carryin' off an' then they burned it plum' to the groun'.

Jim an' his people near froze to death on the mounting, but they got at last to the cabin uv some uv their kin, whar they are now.
Then they've carried off all the hosses an' cattle they kin find in the valleys an' besides robbin' everybody they've shot some good men.
Thar is shorely a good dose uv lead comin' to every feller in that band." The mountaineer's face for a moment contracted violently.