“What, dat great heaby head?”

“Yes.”

“What, all de way fro’ de tree?”

“Yes.”

“No, no, Mass’ George, um too heaby. Dat kill a poor nigger all dead, oh!”

“Nonsense! It is not so heavy as all that.”

“Oh, yes; um drefful heaby. Frow um in.”

“But I want my father to see it, and Morgan would like to.”

“Eh? I see.”

He ducked down quickly, and lifted the head on to an old stump. Then, breaking off a bough of dead wood, he chopped a short piece off and propped open the huge jaws.