"
"You should have double security for it now, Wat, and so keep your
prayers till you see the cross timbers, and the twisted trouble. There's
something more like business in hand now, and seeing that we shan't be
able to fight one another, as we intended, all that we can do now is to
make friends as fast as possible, and prepare to fight somebody else."
"You think just as I should in this matter, and that certainly is the
wisest policy left us. It's a common cause we have to take care of, for
I happen to know that Captain Fullam--and this I take to be his
troop--has orders from the governor to see to us all, and clear the
lands in no time. The state, it appears, thinks the land quite too good
for such as we, and takes this mode of telling us so. Now, as I care
very little about the state--it has never done me any good, and I have
always been able to take care of myself without it--I feel just in the
humor, if all parties are willing, to have a tug in the matter before I
draw stakes.
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