because as soon ’s it’s found out ’at we didn’t own it — which won’t be long after we’ve slid — the sale won’t be valid, and it ’ll all go back to the estate. These yer orphans ’ll git their house back ag’in, and that’s enough for them; they’re young and spry, and k’n easy earn a livin’. They ain’t a-goin’ to suffer. Why, jest think — there’s thous’n’s and thous’n’s that ain’t nigh so well off. Bless you, they ain’t got noth’n’ to complain of.”

Well, the king he talked him blind; so at last he give in, and said all right, but said he believed it was blamed foolishness to stay, and that doctor hanging over them.

But the king says: