[Captain Sam by George Cary Eggleston]@TWC D-Link bookCaptain Sam CHAPTER XIII 5/5
I made the ditch for it to run into, and if you'll examine the ground here you'll find that my trench is doing its work very well indeed." "That's a fac'," said Sid Russell, feeling of the sand. "I say Sam," said Billy Bowlegs, squaring himself before Sam, with arms akimbo. "Well, say it then," replied Sam, laughing, and assuming a similar attitude. "If there is any little thing, about any sort o' thing, that you don't happen to know, I wish you'd just oblige me by telling me what it is." "I haven't time, Billy," laughed Sam, "the list of things I don't know is too long to begin this late in the evening." "Well, you've made me feel like an idiot every day since we started on this tramp, by knowing all about things, and doing little things that any fool ought to have thought of, and not one of us fools did." "Come, supper is ready," replied Sam. After supper the boys busied themselves drying their clothes by the roaring fire of pitch pine which blazed and crackled in front of the tent, making the air within like that of an oven.
While they were at it they fell to talking, of course, and it is equally a matter of course that they talked about the subject which was uppermost in their minds.
They knew very well that until the house was built, and supper over, they could get nothing out of Sam.
"He never will explain anything till every body is ready to listen," said Sid Russell, who had become one of Sam's heartiest admirers.
Recognizing the truth of Sid's observation, the boys had tacitly consented to postpone all questions respecting Sam's plans and queer manoeuvres until after supper, when there was time for him to talk and for them to listen. Now that the time had come, the long repressed curiosity broke forth in questions..
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