Presently he jumped a fence, and walking off to the left, climbed a hill, from the top of which he could see old Ike's house.

Ike came out of the house and helped him unload the buckets, and carry them into an old corn-house which stood behind the barn: As soon as the Frenchman had turned his oxen's head down the lane, the Elder set out for the house, across the fields.

But Ike saved him all perplexity as to introducing the object of his visit by saying at once, picking up one of the sugar-buckets which had rolled off to one side, "I'm jest pilin' up Ganew's sugar-buckets for him.

What time will he be here?" "About this same time," said Ike.

" Meantime the Elder was sitting in the doorway of old Ike's barn waiting for the Frenchman; ten o'clock came, eleven, twelvehe did not appear.

" The Elder smiled tenderly on poor old Ike.

"Everything is a dispensation, Ike, accordin' to my way o' thinkin';" and again he thought involuntarily of "little Draxy.

" Old Ikepoor, ignorant, loving old Ike, whose tender instinct was like the wistful sagacity of a faithful dogread their faces better.

As they walked silently by, old Ike's face saddened, and at last became convulsed with grief.

" At this moment Hannah put her head into the door and said, in no pleasant voice: "Here's that Ike Sanborn wantin' to speak to ye sir, but I telled him" "Let him come right in here, Hannah," said Draxy.

Hannah's face relaxed in spite of herself, in answer to Draxy's smile, but she could not forgive Ike for what seemed to her a most unwarrantable intrusion, and she was grimmer than ever when she returned to him, saying, "They'll see ye; but I must say, I sh'd ha' thought ye'd know better'n to be comin' round here this mornin' of all mornin's.

Ain't they to have a minute's peace to theirselves?" Ike looked up appealingly at the hard Indian face.

"Why, Ike, do you really want so much to live with us?" Ike's first answer was a look.

Ike looked at the hand, but he did not touch it.

So when poor Ike came in, trembling and nervous, to his first night's lodging under the Elder's roof, he found in the kitchen, to his utter surprise, instead of a frowning and dangerous enemy, a warm ally, as friendly in manner and mien as Indian blood would permit.

And Ike took hold of her shoulder and of her gown and almost turned her around.

Just as Elder Williams was concluding the communion service, the door of the church was burst open, and old Ike, tottering into the aisle, cried out in a shrill voice: "Mis' Kinney's dead!

" Old Ike had been rambling around the house, and observing from the outside that Draxy's position was strange, had compelled Hannah to go into the room.

Ike and Jake took it.

"The nyture man would 'ike up 'ere several times a day, after the frogs closed his road," said the New Zealander.

My mother was named Fronie Whitaker and pa Ike Whitaker.

By, by, by." Interviewer: Watt McKinney Person interviewed: Dock Wilborn A mile or so from Marvell, Arkansas Age: 95 Dock Wilborn was born a slave near Huntsville, Alabama on January 7, 1843, the property of Dan Wilborn who with his three brothers, Elias, Sam, and Ike, moved to Arkansas and settled near Marvell in Phillips County about 1855.

" Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Ike Worthy 2413 W. 11th Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age 74 "I was born in Selma, Alabama on Christmas day

" Interviewer: Mrs. Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Ike McCoy, Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 65 [TR: Illegible words indicated by "", questionable words followed by "?".]

I was born on Mr. Ike Wethingtons place.