"Why, Buck, they might have scalped us all, you've been so slow in coming."

     "Well, nobody come after me, and it ain't right I'm always kept down; I don't get no show."

     "Never mind, Buck, my boy," says the old man, "you'll have show enough, all in good time, don't you fret about that. Go 'long with you now, and do as your mother told you."

     When we got up-stairs to his room he got me a coarse shirt and a roundabout and pants of his, and I put them on. While I was at it he asked me what my name was, but before I could tell him he started to tell me about a bluejay and a young rabbit he had catched in the woods day before yesterday, and he asked me where Moses was when the candle went out. I said I didn't know; I hadn't heard about it before, no way.

     "Well, guess," he says.

     "How'm I going to guess," says I, "when I never heard tell of it before?"

     "But you can guess, can't you? It's just as easy."

     "WHICH candle?" I says.