How he—Fide Scott—was hankerin' fer suthin'

fit to eat

"———!" says he. "Le's you an' me go out an'

find some meat."

We paddled off a-whisperin' beneath the long birch

limbs

An' we snooked along as silent as a sucker when

he swims;

I could hear him slow his paddle as eroun' the

turns he bore;