THAT night we made our camp in a high place, with
supper-fires starting up far as the eye could reach
and scouts out all 'round 'em. After supper Pop called a big
Powwow 'round the council-fire and people kept coming in
and setting down 'round it till they was thousands of 'em
ranged out every which way under the stars.

Then Pop he got up and told 'em the way things was and
asked 'em what they figured we ought to do. He says he
wanted the opinion of the majority. Wasn't a second later
the whole place begun sounding like a dog-fight, with every-
body talking and howling and hooting to once. Soon's Pop
could make head or tail out of the mess he see it was a
squabble 'tween the ones that wanted to fight for a place to
settle on, and the fellers and their womenfolks that wanted
to move on.

Then Abe Lincoln he stands up and begins talking in his
slow quiet voice and 'fore he said half a dozen words you
could hear a pin drop. He give 'em to understand you
couldn't have killing 'thout more killing, and killing never
done no good anyhow 'cept to make things worse'n they was
'fore it started. When he set down the Catlums give him a
cheer and I see he'd carried the day.

Next thing to do was to decide where to move to. Eric
he was all for Alaska, on account of him having a hankering
for the cold countries, and Ellie she put in her word for them
islands in the South Seas. John Henry said if we was willing
to start out for Africa he'd guarantee them black boys

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