There's a reward offered fer you an' thet boy.' Uncle Eb called him aside and was talking to him a long time.
I never knew what was said, but they came at last and took us into the boat and the stranger was very friendly.
When we had come near the landing on the 'York State' side, I remember he gave us our bearings.
'Keep t' the woods,' he said, 'till you're out o' harm's way.

Don't go near the stage road fer a while.

Ye'll find a store a little way up the mountain.

Git yer provisions there an' about eighty rod farther ye'll strike the trail.

It'll take ye over the mountain north an' t' Paradise Road.