"I'm trying to tell you _why_ you had.

Why I brought this letter down is, you ain't _got_ no place to get back _to_." "What you mean ?" said Wid Gardner suddenly.
"Hell's loose in this valley to-day," said the mail carrier.

"Five fires, when I come through before noon.

Wid, your house is gone, and your barn, too.

Sim, somebody's burned your hay and your barn, and shot your stock, and set your house afire--it would of burned plumb down if Nels Jensen hadn't got there just in time.