and ran out to my father and said, “there goes the robbers.” But his
father said they were not, and told him to go and attend to his milking.
He milked one cow and put the pail inside the gate and ran up the rode
which they had gone up. His father halloed after him to come back and to
take care of the cows, for if they were the robbers, they would shoot him.
He ran on to Mars Ouren’s, and asked if he saw the two men pass by. He
said he did not see any, when the boy asked the man to go with him to see
where the men had gone, but he responded by saying he had no time. He then
started off alone, and told Christensen’s folks about it, and went on the
roof of the house to look around, but could see nobody. He then hurried up
to a big hill, and still could not see anybody. When he returned, his
father told him that four men had been to get something to eat,