Kiley and Rondell in “The Crooked Path”

I don't know what I'd have done if I hadn't skipped out the back of that teepee.

I do. I was captured by those same Indians.

Yeah?

That's right. Just like you I was surprised they didn't kill me, but stuck me instead inside a teepee. And I want to tell you boy, if you hadn't escaped, you'd sure know what they was going to do to ya'.

What's that?

They were going to fatten you up, just like they did to me. Cornbread, Venison Meat, Gravy. I just couldn't figure it. Finally I saw a great big stew pot on the fire. Then I saw it. They was fattening me up to eat me.

How'd you escape?

Well son, I didn't. They ate me.