down to de head er de islan’ a man begin to come aft wid de lantern. I see it warn’t no use fer to wait, so I slid overboard en struck out fer de islan’.

Well, I had a notion I could lan’ mos’ anywhers, but I couldn’t — bank too bluff. I uz mos’ to de foot er de islan’ b’fo’ I foun’ a good place. I went into de woods en jedged I wouldn’ fool wid raffs no mo’, long as dey move de lantern roun’ so. I had my pipe en a plug er dog-leg en some matches in my cap, en dey warn’t wet, so I ’uz all right.”

“And so you ain’t had no meat nor bread to eat all this time? Why didn’t you get mud-turkles?”

“How you gwyne to git ’m? You can’t