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Yer'se made it cl'ar ter me dat I'se got ter keep de han'lin' ob dat gole or you'll be a-carryin' dis 'liance business too far! If I gib yer gole, I expec' yer ter shine up an be 'greeable-like ter me ebbery way yer know how. Dat's only fa'r, doggoned ef it ain'!" and Jeff spoke in a very aggrieved tone.
It's Dan Boggs who dismisses Silver Phil; Dan does it in efforts he puts forth to faithfully represent the right. "Doc Peets allers allows this Silver Phil is a 'degen'rate; leastwise that's the word Peets uses. An' while I freely concedes I ain't none too cl'ar as to jest what a degen'rate is, I stands ready to back Peets' deescription to win.
He 's gittin' most damn touchy, is Stutter, an' I 'm all a-tremble fer fear he 'll blow a hole cl'ar through me. It's hell, love is, whin it gits a good hol' on a damn fool. Wal, these yere two bloomin' females came cavortin' up the trail this mornin', just afore daylight. Nobody sent 'em no invite, but they sorter conceived they had a mission in ther wilderness.
"'An' I'm present to say, returns the Colonel mighty complacent, 'that I looks on sech assoorances as complimentary. To show which I onhesitatin'ly reels off that eepisode to which I adverts. "'I'm only a child; but I retains my impressions as sharp cut an' cl'ar as though she happens yesterday.
I allers allowed it would have been a powerful good poem if I'd stampeded along cl'ar through. "Yes, son; women that a-way is shorely rangy cattle an' allers on the move. Thar's a time once when two of 'em comes mighty near splittin' Wolfville wide open an' leavin' it on both sides of the trail. All that ever saves the day is the ca'm jedgement an' promptitood of Old Man Enright.
"Give me sea-room here! give me sea-room!" we saw and heard the preparatory swinging of Captain Pharo's mallet "cl'ar the way thar, Shamgar; for by the everlastin' clam, I'm a-goin' to give ye a clip that'll send ye t' the west shore o' Machias!" A mighty concussion followed. Elder Skates, as if reminded by these thunders of his duty, blushed deeply with shame and penitence.
"What you war saying of the road is true; thar it goes, wide, open, cl'ar, and straight, with as good a fence on both sides of it to keep in stragglers, as war ever made of ash, oak, or chestnut rails, though it's nothing but a natteral bank of cane-brake: and so it runs, jest as cl'ar and wide, all the way to the river."
"Not a bit nor be the same towken do I think they saw me." "How did you and Shasta meet?" "That was shtrange, was the same. After I found I was cl'ar of the varmints, from the raisin that their exclusive attention was occupied by the b'ar, I stopped and went to thinking did I. I could saa the great necessity of our having me own canoe and I went back to whom I left the same.
They had jeered him unmercifully, and he had regarded them with serene and wondering attention. "I say, Pinetop, is it raining up where you are?" a wit had put to him on the first day, and he had looked down and answered placidly: "Naw, it's cl'ar."
"Want to git cl'ar 'bove," said he. "Why?" Jack inquired. "This 'ere is a beaver nest," said Solomon. He returned in a moment with his pot full of beautiful clear water of which they drank deeply. "Ye see the beavers make a dam an' raise the water," Solomon explained. "When it gits a good ice roof so thick the sun won't burn a hole in it afore spring, they tap the dam an' let the water out.
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