An astonished look came over my father’s face. “Why, Billy,” he said, “you can’t stay down here without anything to eat and no sleep.
Besides, it’ll take at least two days to cut that tree down and that’s hard work.”
“Please, Papa,” I begged, “don’t make me quit. I just have to get that coon.
If I don’t, my dogs won’t ever believe in me again.”
Papa didn’t know what to tell me. He scratched his head, looked over to my dogs and back at me.
He started walking around. I waited for him to make up his mind. He finally reached a decision.
“Well, all right,” he said. “If that’s the way you want it, I’m for it even if it is only an agreement between you and your dogs.
If a man’s word isn’t any good, he’s no good himself.
“Now I have to get back and tell your mother that you’re all right.
It’s a cinch that you can’t do that kind of work on an empty stomach, so I’ll send your oldest sister down with a lunch bucket.”
With tears in my eyes, I said, “Tell Mama I’m sorry for not coming home last night.”
“Don’t you worry about your mother,” he said, as he climbed on the mule’s back. “I’ll take care of her.
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