“Tom, I been watchin’ the cars on the road, them we passed an’ them that passed us. I been keepin’ track.’’ “Track a what?’’ “Tom, they’s hunderds a families like us all a-goin’ west. I watched. There ain’t none of ’em goin’ east—hunderds of ’em. Did you notice that?’’ “Yeah, I noticed.’’ “Why—it’s like—it’s like they was runnin’ away from soldiers. It’s like a whole country is movin’.’’
