He said he was sittin' there in the dark, shootin' occasionally at Isbel's cabin, when he heerd a rustle behind him in the grass.

He knowed some one was crawlin' on him.

But before he could get his gun around he was jumped by what he thought was a grizzly bear.
But it was a man.

He shut off Greaves's wind an' dragged him back in the ditch.

An' he said: 'Greaves, it's the half-breed.