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"You know my maw?" asked Eddie, and there was a wistful note in his voice. "Aw shucks! you don't know her that's jest some o' your funny, slicker business. You wanna git me in there an' then you'll try an' git aroun' me some sort o' way to let you escape; but I'm too slick for that." "On the level Eddie, I know your maw," persisted Billy. "I ben in your maw's house jest a few weeks ago.
He could ask questions, four hundred kinds of questions, an' writin' hit all down into a writin' machine onto paper. We shore told him a heap an' a passel, an' he writes mornin' an' nights. Lots of curius fellers on Ole Mississip'. We'll sort of look aroun'. Co'se, yo' got a man to go 'long?" "No." "Wha-a-t! Yo' ain' goin' to trip down alone?" "I might's well."
I ask her why she think that, and she say she no can be spect have reason for all whatte she think; and she throw her head aroun so I no can comb at all and keeck out her little foot. "'You no go to marry with Don Carlos? I asking. "'No! she say, and youbetcherlife her eyes flash. 'You think I marrying a singing, sighing, gambling, sleepy caballero? Si no can marry man I no marry at all.
"It's a lucky thing that I've got a kind uv stove an' buffalo meat an' venison an' other kinds uv game. I'm jest willin' to bet that you four hulkin' fellers will want to lay aroun' an' eat all the time." "I wouldn't be surprised, Jim, if we didn't get hungry once in a while," said Henry, with a smile.
Thin a big rain-storm come, an' they was no tents to protect thim; an' they set aroun', shiverin' an' swearin'. Me uncle Mike was a bit iv a politician; an' he organized a meetin' iv th' lads that had come over with him, an' sint a comity to wait on th' major gin'ral.
'Perault, dat's fonee ting, he say. 'Where dose can' meat, eh? By gar! days so, de bear he can' eat dose can' meat, not moche!" "Not likely, not bein' a goat," put in Ike drily. "Well, we look aroun' ver' close, no scratch, no track. By gar! days no bear, for sure dat's one bear on two leg." "I think," said Sinclair gravely, "that there is no doubt of that. The question is, who did it?
You oughtn't to feel hard toward me," he quavered, wilting under the unfriendly eyes. "I'd a passed it if there'd been enough to go aroun'." "An' after all we've done fer ye," said Lannigan, "makin' ye Jestice of the Peace to keep ye off the town." "Jedge," said Uncle Bill deliberately, "you're gittin' almost no-account enough to be a Forest Ranger.
Tryon, with parted lips and slowly hardening heart, leaned forward from the buggy-seat, gripping the rein so tightly that his nails cut into the opposing palm. Above the clatter of noisy conversation rose the fiddler's voice: "Swing yo' pa'dners; doan be shy, Look yo' lady in de eye! Th'ow yo' ahm aroun' huh wais'; Take yo' time dey ain' no has'e!"
"They'll never do it," replied Jim Hart confidently. "Besides, they ain't got the least suspicion that we've come here. Likely, they think we've landed at the north end uv the lake, an' they'll be prowlin' aroun' thar three or four days lookin' fur us. Jest think, Paul, uv all the work they'll hev fur nothin'. I feel like laughin'. I think I will laugh."
But who's this yer, lurkin' aroun' the kitchen do'; if it ain't Jack Wonnell, I hope I may die! Sic!" With this, active as the dog had been but yesterday, Jimmy rushed on Jack Wonnell, chased him to the fence, and brought him back by the neck. Wonnell wore a bell-crown, and his hand was full of fall blossoms.
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