Two Little Confederates

called to the old man, who was leisurely cro

a and Frank set out

l de chickens? Is he done got away

dyin'," sh

ot him?" asked

robber and he fooled this one," explained Wil

etter o' dat?-dat man's foolin' wid you;

d Willy; "you ought

at him, so he felt very shamefaced. H

, oh! A

t?" he asked,

o run shoot him, but mine you don' hit me," and the old man walked up to the door, and standing on

d the person within. Old Balla held his torch inside t

aimed. "What you doin' heah, robbin' white folks' hen-roos'?

he roll-call?-the tent's mighty dark; what you

on the floor, apparently asleep, and that he

caught him by the arms, lifted him, a

an empty flask. "Come on out. Let me see what I

THE DOOR, AND STANDING

wid you. I gwi' lock yo

ose he gets well,

m you, who was jes' gwi' let 'im out ef

cused him and told him the charge was tr

better take

t dyah. Ef he comes to, he know we got

broken, he took a large nail from his pocket and fastened it in the staple with a stout string so that it could n

handlin' horses an' know how to hole 'em in the stalls. I boun' he'll have to butt like a ram to git out dis log hen-house,"

appreciate all of the witticisms over the prisoner, but

," said he, in parting. "Ef he gits out that hen-house I'll give you ev'y

over his ridiculous mistake. They were soon fast aslee

m a story about Uncle Balla and the man in the hen-house. They jumped up, an

ith a comical look of mystification and chagrin; the roof had been lift

d to cry; Balla's look, ho

every chicken you got, 'cause

' pester me when I studyin'

se get through the roof be

," said the old man, walking a

d some of the other servants that "the man them chillern let git away had just come back and t

ever hearing any more of his mistake; but that did not keep him now