One night, when the pines beside the cabin were swaying in the storm and trailing their slender fingers over the roof, and the roar and rush of the swollen river were heard below, Tennessee's Partner lifted his head from the pillow, saying, "It is time to go for Tennessee; I must put Jinny in the cart"; and would have risen from his bed but for the restraint of his attendant. Struggling, he still pursued his singular fancy: "There, now, steady, Jinny,--steady, old girl. How dark it is! Look out for the ruts,--and look out for him, too, old gal. Sometimes, you know, when he's blind drunk, he drops down right in the trail. Keep on straight up to the pine on the top of the hill. Thar! I told you so!--thar he is,--coming this way, too,--all by himself, sober, and his face a-shining. Tennessee! Pardner!" And so they met. NOTES =Sandy Bar=:--The imaginary mining-camp in which Bret Harte laid the scenes of many of his stories. =dungaree=:--A coarse kind of unbleached cotton cloth. =I call=:--An expression used in the game of euchre. =bowers=:--_Bower_ is from the German word _bauer_, meaning a peasant,--so called from the jack or knave; the right bower, in the game of euchre, is the jack of trumps, and the left bower is the other jack of the same color. =chaparral=:--A thicket of scrub-oaks or thorny shrubs. =euchred=:--Defeated, as in the game of euchre. =Judge Lynch=:--A name used for the hurried judging and executing of a suspected person, by private citizens, without due process of law. A Virginian named Lynch is said to have been connected with the origin of the expression. "=diseased=":--Tennessee's Partner means _deceased_. =sluicing=:--A trough for water, fitted with gates and valves; it is used in washing out gold from the soil. SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY