I told him dynamite came in little packages. He asked me if I had my two dollars.
“Yes,” I said. He wanted to see my money. I showed it to him.
Rubin, not to be outdone, showed me his. We crossed an old field and entered the river bottoms.
By this time it was quite dark. I lit my lantern and asked which one wanted to carry my ax.
“It’s yours,” Rainie said. “You carry it.” Not wanting to argue, I carried both the lantern and the ax.
Rainie started telling me how stingy and crooked my grandfather was.
I told him I hadn’t come to have any trouble or to fight.
All I wanted to do was to hunt the ghost coon. If there was going to be any trouble, I would just call my dogs and go home.
Rubin had a nickel’s worth of sense, but Rainie had none at all.
Rubin told him if he didn’t shut up, he was going to bloody his nose. That shut Rainie up.
Old Dan opened up first. It was a beautiful thing to hear. The deep tones of his voice rolled in the silent night.
A bird in a canebrake on our right started chirping.
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