Because
you know yourself that there are lots of robberies and hold-ups and thefts
and things since the war.
CHAPTER XII
MARSHAL FOCH
I was sitting up on a branch of a tree when they came along and I heard the
postmaster saying that Cy Berry had lost his heifer and he guessed maybe
now it was found.
I shouted, "You have one more guess. I think the leopard ate his heifer; he
was terribly hungry."
Well, you should have heard them as soon as they had a look at the animal.
One of them said, "I haint seed no leo-pods around these parts--_neverrr_.
And I been livin' here nigh on to forty year."
Harry Donnelle said, "Well, the animal is a leopard just the same. Either
you've been staying home most of the time or else he has." I had to laugh,
it was so funny the way he said it. Another one said, "There be'nt no
leopards in the Catskills, that's sartin."
"Well, maybe he was just spending the summer here then," Harry said; "but
here he is, anyway, and I'd like to get him away from here."
"Yer be'nt goin' ter try to keep him, be yer?" the man asked.
Harry said, "Yes, I'm just that reckless.
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