"'I ave prayed,' says he. 'Here's the answer.'
"Then I sat up. And well I might. I could hear it comin meself—low and far, and all the while a-growin like a mutter o thunder. It made me shake to hear it—not being brought up religious like.
"Then there was a rushin and a roarin, and the earth shook, and h'all of a sudden h'out of the whirlwind a great voice ollaed:—
"'Tally-ho! forrad!—mush em up, boys, and no Woody quarter!'
"'Your prayer is eard, Mr. Piper,' says I. 'It's a Jedgement on em.'
"'My prayer is eard,' says pore old Pipea. 'It's the orse-dragoons.'
"Then his ead loll sideways, and he was h'off again."