CHAPTER XII.
WHERE THE POINTER WAS.
"Yes, sar, I'm goin' to raise a furse here now, an' I won't be long about it, nuther.

They think I don't amount to nothin' in this yere house, but I'll show 'em that I do.

Pap bein' away, I had oughter be the man of the family, an' that leetle Dave shan't crowd me outen the place, nuther.

When he comes back to-night his eyes'll stick out so't a feller could hang his hat onto 'em.

You hear me ?" This was the way Dan Evans talked to himself, as he sat on the bench in front of the door, gazing after his mother and David, as they walked down the road toward General Gordon's.