“No; spirits wouldn’t say, ‘Dern the dern fog.’ ”

Soon as it was night out we shoved; when we got her out to about the middle we let her alone, and let her float wherever the current wanted her to; then we lit the pipes, and dangled our legs in the water, and talked about all kinds of things⁠—we was always naked, day and night, whenever the mosquitoes would let us⁠—the new clothes Buck’s folks made for me was too good to be comfortable, and besides I didn’t go much on clothes, nohow.