Did you ever know it was me that helped
get him away from the revenue men the night he had a barrel o' whiskey
on his wagon?" Hettie laughed impulsively, and her graceful little
body shook all over.
"Mother thought you had a hand in it," answered Harriet, with an
appreciative smile.
"It was fun," giggled Hettie. "Toot drove nipitytuck down the street
from the Hawkbill as fast as he could lick it, and them a-gallopin'
after 'im. I had been on the front porch talkin' to his father, who
was anxious about 'im and wanted to see 'im. Toot pulled up at the
side gate an' said: 'No use, Het, damn it; I can't make it, and they'll
know my horse and wagon an' prove it on me.' Then I thought what to
do; the men wasn't in sight back there in the woods. Quicker 'n
lightnin', I made Toot push the whiskey across the porch into the
kitchen an' shet the door, an' when the revenue men stopped at the gate
Toot was settin' up as cool as a cucumber in his wagon talkin' to me
over the fence. I think he was asking me to get in the wagon and go
out home with him. I never seed--saw 'im so scared, though, in my
life; but la me! it was fun to me, an' I had more lies on my tongue 'n
a dog has fleas.
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