Rene had changed her posture, but still slumbered, with face completely concealed in her arms; but Sam was wide awake, and turned toward me grinning at my first movement.

He had a broad, good-humored face, and a row of prominent teeth, slightly shadowed by a very thin moustache.

Instinctively, I liked the fellow on sight--he appeared both intelligent and trustworthy.
"Daylight, is it ?" I said, speaking low so as not to awaken the girl.
"I must have been asleep." "Yas, sah; yer's bin a noddin' fer de las' hour.

Ah wus 'bout ter stir yer up, sah, fer Ah reckon as how we's mos' dar." "Most where ?" staring about incredulously.

"Oh, yes, Rassuer Creek.
Have we made that distance already ?" Sam's teeth glittered in another expanding of his mouth.
"Wal', we's bin a goin' et a mighty good gait, sah.