"To have a little fun, sir."
"Did you not know that there was a design to rob his poultry pen?"
Frank recollected his momentary doubts as to the good faith of his companions, when the dog assailed him, and thought he could make that uncertainty the base of a strong "No, sir."
"But you know his pen was robbed?"
"No, sir, I do not know it——," Frank reflecting as he spoke, that a man cannot really know any thing of which he has not been an eye-witness, and comforting his conscience with the fact that he had not seen the turkeys stolen.
"Now,"—Captain Edney did not betray by look or word whether he believed or doubted the boy's assertion,—"tell me who was with you in the woods."
"Seth Tucket, sir."
"Who else?"
"O, ever so many fellows had been with me."
"Name them."