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That's Steve Gary talkin'. Don't you go mixin' with Gary. He's right quick with his gun. What's a-bitin' you, anyhow?" "Who'd you say?" queried Pete. "Gary Steve Gary. Reckon you heard of him." "Who says I'm lucky he ain't here?" again challenged Gary. "Shut up, Steve," said a friendly cowboy. "Can't you take a josh?" "Who's lookin' for a row, anyhow?" queried another cowboy. "I ain't."
We ride by Broadalbin, I think.... Whoa! back up! you long-eared ass! D'ye think to smell a Mohawk?... Or is it your comrades on the picket-rope that bedevil you?... Look at the troop-horses, sir, all a-rolling on their backs in the sand, four hoofs waving in the air. It's easier on yon sentry than when they're all a-squealin' and a-bitin' This way, sir.
Bud cyant tell you why, Mister Kingsley, to save his soul 'cept that he jes' thinks he's got to do it an' put me to the expense of bustin' crockery. "I stood it mighty nigh two years arter Bud and me was spliced, thinkin' maybe it war ther bed-bugs a-bitin' Bud, long towards the full of the moon.
But thar' ain't no pity 'ithout love; and it's a love 't ain't no fine-spun thread, but a ten-inch hawser; a love 't stands by ye when thar' 's a trackless path afore and a lost trail ahind; when ye're scuddin' afore the squall, an' the seas come thunderin' down on ye; when yer boat 's in splinters, and ye're a-bitin' the sand.
She looked at him with an indulgent sadness, and then at me. "Laws, Ma'am, he don't know nothin' about it, he don't. Why, I've seen them poor critters, beat an' 'bused an' hunted, brought in all torn, ears hangin' all in rags, where the dogs been a-bitin' of 'em!" This set off our little African Puck into another giggle, in which he seemed perfectly convulsed.
'An' why not? asks Bill. "'Because I won't let you, says the soopercilious gent, a-bitin' off a piece of tobacco. 'This is my camp, an' force'ble invasions by casooal hold-ups like you, don't preevail with me a little bit. I resents the introosion on my privacy. "'But I'll have to sleep on these yere plains, says Bill a heap plaintif.
The rest of the crowd sort o' bunched in one end of the room an' when you began addressin' the congregation, so to speak, on the habits, character, customs and breedin' of sailor-men in general an' the present company in particular, I see right there that you was a-bitin' off more 'n you could chaw.
A howl from the sufferer did not frighten off the amateur dog, and he was finally dislodged only by being clutched by the throat by his victim. "That izhn't the way to play bear," complained Toddie; "you ought to keep on a-howlin' an' let me keep on a-bitin', an' then you give me pennies to stop that's the way papa does." "Can you see how Tom Lawrence can be so idiotic?" asked Mrs. Burton.
Then they'd take a pull out'n the same bottle o' moonshine, an' fust one an' then t'other they'd swing her agin. An' Abe Shivers a-settin' thar by the fire a-bitin' his thumbs!
In summer it's different, an' then the woods are like home." "Well," said her grandmother, seeing that the girl was bent upon her purpose, "if ye're skeered for old 'Spotty, ye'd better be a little mite skeered for yerself, Child! Take along the gun. Mebbe ye might see a chipmunk a-bitin' the old cow jest awful!"
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