“Well, you give me a dollar a day—But hold on. Have you got any money at all? I had better know that before we start.”
“Oh, yes, I have as much as—as ten dollars, and I will give you your pay every night.”
“Where did you get ten dollars?” asked Peleg, who was very much surprised. “Why don’t you buy a new pair of overalls?”
“I have my reasons. They are good ones, too. Are you going with me or ain’t you? We have some other little matters to decide, and it is getting along toward dark.”
“If you say so we will go tonight,” replied Peleg, getting upon his feet again.
“What will you say to your folks?”
“I will tell them that I am going out after the cows, or any thing else that I think of. My folks won’t trouble us, I will bet on that. But we have got to have something to eat.”
“I have thought of that, and I can buy everything we want in Manchester—every thing except the meat. You have a gun—”
“Yes; but we must get some powder and shot for that. I am all out.”
“We can do that, too. Now I will tell you what I have decided upon.”