"Well, he's the best sheep-dog on earth."

The raft slowed up, creaking--slower--straining and creaking, and stopped. The
trip was over, and the Squire had made his "record," for the red-faced man
whistled incredulously when the old man told him what day he had left Kingdom
Come.

An hour later the big Dillon twins hove in sight, just as the Turner party was
climbing the sawdust hill into the town, where Dolph and Rube were for taking
the middle of the street like other mountaineers, who were marching thus ahead
of them, single file, but Tom and the school-master laughed at them and drew
them over to the sidewalk. Bricks and stones laid down for people to walk
on--how wonderful. And all the houses were of brick or were
weather-boarded--all built together wall against wall. And the stores with the
big glass windows all filled with wonderful things! Then a pair of swinging
green shutters through which, while Chad and the school-master waited outside,
Tom insisted on taking Dolph and Rube and giving them their first drink of
Bluegrass whiskey--red liquor, as the hill-men call it. A little farther on,
they all stopped still on a corner of the street, while the school-master
pointed out to Chad and Dolph and Rube the Capitol--a mighty structure of
massive stone, with majestic stone columns, where people went to the
Legislature. How they looked with wondering eyes at the great flag floating
lazily over it, and at the wonderful fountain tossing water in the air, and
with the water three white balls which leaped and danced in the jet of shining
spray and never flew away from it. How did they stay there? The school-master
laughed--Chad had asked him a question at last that he couldn't answer. And
the tall spiked iron fence that ran all the way around the yard, which was
full of trees--how wonderful that was, too! As they stood looking, law-makers
and visitors poured out through the doors--a brave array--some of them in
tight trousers, high hats, and blue coats with brass buttons, and, as they