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When I liquidate for my dinner, I like to get about the best that's goin, and I ant a bit too well pleased if I don't. Exciting indeed!! thinks I. Lord, I should like to see you excited, if it was only for the fun of the thing. What a temptin lookin critter you'd be among the galls, would'nt you?
"Looky yonder," he whispered hoarsely, "that's somebody stealing out o' my traps!" "Where?" gasped Will, making as if anxious to get a snapshot of the thief in the very act. "Keep quiet!" whispered Frank, giving him a push. There was some one bending over the edge of the water, for they could catch a glimpse of his back. "Stay here an' watch me scare the critter!" said old Jesse, with a frown.
He bristled up like a brindled cat. If there's any one thing the Cap'n is down on, it's gamblin' and such always exceptin' when he knows he's won already. You've seen that kind, maybe. "'Young feller, he says, perkish, 'I want you to know that me and my friend ain't the bettin' kind. What sort of a hole IS this, anyway? "The rubber collared critter backed off, lookin' worried.
The voice of Banion was anxious as he lightly shook the shoulder of the prone man, half afraid that he, too, had died. Stupid in sleep, the scout sprang up, rifle in hand. "Who's thar?" "Hold, Bill! Friends! Easy now!" The old man pulled together, rubbed his eyes. "I must of went to sleep agin," said he. "My horse pshaw now, pore critter, do-ee look now!" In rapid words he now told his errand.
Ye're flyin' in the face o' Proverdence, which planted this critter right here fer us ter leave where no one'd ever be the wiser, an' where he couldn't never do no more devilment. Ye idjit, leave me kill him, ef ye're too chicken-hearted yoreself! Or leave us throw him back in again!" Banion would not speak at first, though his eyes never left Woodhull's streaked, ghastly face.
Driscoll seemed struck by the wisdom of that precaution. "Now I heard tell," he chimed in eagerly, "as how a mule is a right sure-footed critter for a river crossin'. An' a good ridin' mule could suit a man fine " "A mule!" Boyd exploded, outraged. But Drew considered the suggestion calmly. "I'll keep a lookout in town. May be swappin' for that mule yet, Driscoll.
Bigsby shuddered slightly as she recognized the usual preliminary to prolixity, but determined, as far as possible, to make her brother brief. "It mout be two weeks ago," began Dan'l, "that I see John Lummox over at Palmyra, where he'd bin visitin'. He was drivin' a hoss, the beautifulest critter for color I ever saw.
"Next to virtue," said Agnes Strickland, "the fun in this world is what we can least spare." "When the harness is off," said Judge Haliburton, "a critter likes to kick up his heels." "I have fun from morning till night," said the editor Charles A. Dana to a friend who was growing prematurely old. "Do you read novels, and play billiards, and walk a great deal?"
"What do you think, Sam?" asked Windy. "My opinion is not quite formed, suh," replied Wooden, who was a Texican. "But my first examination inclines me to the belief that it is a hoss." "Yo're wrong, Sam," denied Windy, sadly; "yo're judgment is confused by the fact that the critter carries a saddle. Look at the animile itself."
The rascal had got his hand on the money." "He is a miserable scamp!" answered Herbert's new friend. "If there'd been a police-man handy, I'd have given him in charge. I've come clear from Wisconsin to see where Warren fell, but I didn't expect to come across such a critter as that on Bunker Hill."
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