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half on de other. We didn‘t look ‘round. No, mo‘—.. we just made dat hoss go.

	“I don‘t know what makes dem hants round there —~ lessen its de gold what‘s buried dem. ~nd you I~iow de spirits always come back fer gold. Sure dey‘s money buried dere. Didn‘t you all know dat? Lots of folks is dug there, but dey ain‘t never found it. Why dey is holes ‘round dere where men‘s been di~gin~g for dat gold.

	“Dey was one ma~ had a~what you call it? A ‘vinin‘. rod. That points to vñiere things is hid. But he didn‘t find it neither. And then out by de ~aberry place,‘ close to Gordenville -~ who~e~e I‘s sure enough seen things out dere lots of times. You know where dat clump of peach trees is at de corner of de fence? Dey always seems to come from right there. I worked out there for a long time. Wetd get out to work early, sometimes ‘twasn‘t good and day.

	“One morning I‘s coming along there, on a hoss I wasp and I met a hossman. He looks funny to me and when he asks re something I says, ‘Git on. I ain‘t talking to youl‘ But he says, twait, I wants to talk to you~ As I says, helooks funny to me and I pulls out my pistol. I always carries my gun, and I think if he makes a pass at me I‘ll git him. But I goes on without looking back. Now just dat one man is all I seen, but when I gets past, dey is lots of talking like dey is six or eight men. But I didn‘t look back.