face

An' he seemed to be a sortin' words to make 'em

fit the case.

"Of all the harmless critters that I ever met," says

he,

"There ain't not none more harmlesser—my God!—

than what you be."

An' he added, kind o' sorrowful, an' hove a mighty

sigh:

"I'd be 'shamed t' meet another deer an' look him