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sparks was our clock -- the first one that showed again meant morning was coming,

so we hunted a place to hide and tie up, right away.

One morning about day-break, I found a canoe and crossed over a chute to

the main shore -- it was only two hundred yards -- and paddled about a mile up

a crick amongst the cypress woods, to see if I couldn't get some berries. Ju.-t

as I was passing a place where a kind of a cow-path crossed the crick, here comes

a couple of men tearing up the path as tight as they could foot it. I thought

I was a goner, for when- ssssssssss

ever anybody was after any- ssssssssss

body I judged it was me -- or ssssssssss

maybe Jim. I was about ssssssssss

to dig out from there in a ssssssssss

hurry, but they was pretty ssssssssss

close to me then, and sung ssssssssss

out and begged me to save ssssssssss

their lives -- said they hadn't ssssssssss

been doing nothing, and was ssssssssss

being chased for it -- said there ssssssssss

was men and dogs a-coming. ssssssssss

They wanted to jump right ssssssssss

in, but I says -- ssssssssss

"Don't you do it. I

don't- hear the dogs and ssssssssss

horses yet; you've got ssssssssss

time to crowd through the ssssssssss

brush and get up the crick ssssssssss

a little ways; then you take ssssssssss

to the water and wade down ssssssssss

to me and get in-that'll throw the dogs off the scent."

They done it, and soon as they was aboard I lit out for our tow-head, and

n about five or ten minutes we heard the dogs and the men away off, shouting.

We heard them come along towards the crick, but couldn't see them; they

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