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Darn me father, stranger's struck it, if he has'nt ? right in the soft cut by Sampo -- Well that beats --
Without replying the Yankee throwing his rifle into his arm stalked up to the tree which stood word 150 yards distant -- to satisfy himself as to the truth of his sons report. Without speaking he returned and took the rifle out of my hand, examined it minutely, raised it to his shoulder several times and returning it said -- A smart piece stranger, that's a fact. You draw a tight bead, you do. Come, let's liquor, leading the way into his house and producing a large jar of monaghahela -- we pledged each other in a word of the word and finding ourselves compatable ? agreed to take up our quarters with him that night in order that we maight share a 'coon hunt in company the next day --