"'Bout a quauta' en' a ha'f a quata.'"
"How near can we get to the picket-line?"
"We kin git mos' up to 'em, caze dey's got de trees cut down."
"The trees cut down in their front?"
"Yassa; dey's got mos' all de trees out down, so dey is."
"And we can get to this edge of the felled timber?"
"Yassa; we kin git to de falled timba', but we's got to go roun' de pon'."
"And if we go around the pond first; we shall then find the picket-line?"
"De picket-line at Young's Mill?"
"Yes."