During that time Andy and the boys
were constantly on guard about the shop, but the crazy machinist
and his companion did not return.
Washington White agreed to stand guard part of one night, and, as
the others were tired, they agreed to it. But a fox or some
animal got in among the colored man's chickens, and at the first
sound of alarm from his favorite fowls, Washington deserted his
post and rushed for the coop. Jack, who was awakened by the
noise, looked out of the window.
"It is some one trying to get in, Wash?" he asked.
"Dat's what, Massa Jack."
Jack awakened Mark, and the two hurried down with their guns.
They found the colored maw making a circuit of his coop.
"I thought you said some one was trying to get in," observed
Jack.
"So dey was, Massa Jack. I done heard de most, tremendousness
conglomeration of disturbances in de direction ob my domesticoryian
orinthological specimens, an' I runned ober to see what it were."
"You mean that something was after your chickens?" asked Mark.
"Dat's de impression I done endeavored to prognostigate to yo',
but seems laik I ain't understood," replied Washington with an
injured air.
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