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A yell of rage arose from the others, and again bullets pattered on the surface of the lake, but all fell short. Jim Hart calmly reloaded his rifle. "That'll teach 'em to be a little more keerful who they're a-follerin'," he said. "Now, Paul, let's paddle."
"It must be wolves!" "Nary a doubt of it!" assented his father, again reining the uneasy horses down to a steady gait. "They've followed the deer back, and now, seems like their a-follerin' us!" The boy looked thoughtful for a moment, then said, carelessly: "Oh, well, I reckon there's deer a-plenty for 'em, an' they're not likely to come too nigh us, lookin' fer trouble.
"Ay," said Corkey, pointing to the sea astern, where the glassy surface was broken and rippled by a sharp angular object, "that's a shark a-follerin' of us now, leastwise the back fin of one. If you don't believe it, jump overboard and you'll soon be convinced." This reference to the shark was overheard by Polly, who came out of her bower to see it.
Conroyal, "'tis but a holy cross I am cutting to scare the devils away from following us up that evil-smelling stream," and he pointed to the east fork of the little river, from which arose a faint odor. "Wal," grinned Ham, "I shore dew hope that you scare 'em away; for thar shore is devils a-follerin' us," and his grin broadened at sight of the startled look that came into Pedro's face.
If you set out to hunt beauty and goodness, if you take good aim and are perseverin' if you jest track 'em and foller 'em stiddy from mornin' till night, and don't get led away a-follerin' up some other game, such as meanness and selfishness and other such worthless head o' cattle why, at night you will come in with a sight of good game. You will be a noble and happy hunter.
Peter's, jest as it is in this world, saints a-follerin' sinners. It is the exact model of the Church of St. Peter's at Rome. I would go in to see that, and Josiah consented after a parley. It is the exact model down to the most minute details of that most wonderful glory of art.
I've got my eye on you, mind, and if I catch you a-follerin' of him' he jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Arthur's departing figure 'I'll pinch you. Sure as you're alive. He paused. 'I'd have done it already, he added, pensively, 'if it wasn't me birthday. Arthur Welsh turned sharply. For some time he had been dimly aware that somebody was calling his name. 'Oh, Arthur!
"She said as how she had written instead o' electro-telegraphing, 'cause she had so much to say she couldn't fit it all on a telegraph." "I thought that would be so," Kate said. "She wrote to Major Major him as is a-follerin' of her. She said as she had no doubt as he'd be down to-day, and you was to keep up your sperrits and let her know by me if any one was a-wexin' you." "No, no.
His aim was not remarkable for its accuracy, to the great disgust of the man in attendance, whose tip was generally regulated by the size of the bag. "Dear me!" at last exclaimed the sportsman, "but the birds seem exceptionally strong on the wing this year." "Not all of 'em, sir," was the answer. "You've shot at the same bird about a dozen times. 'E's a-follerin' you about, sir."
"'Er pore father died of drink, cuss 'im, an' I'm a-follerin' 'im to the same place in the same way. You weren't about town in the old days, or you'd a-bin after her, cuss ye." "After Rosanna?" "The werry girl," answered Mother Guttersnipe.
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