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John Addums is erbout as sharp as a razor. Took a likin' to Jack an' me. I tol' him he were smart 'nough to be a trapper." The two came back in the saddle and reached Albany late in October. The New York Mercury of November 4, 1770, contains this item: "John Irons, Jr., and Solomon Binkus, the famous scout, arrived Wednesday morning on the schooner Ariel from Albany. Mr.
"We're a nice set ter talk erbout dewin' somethin' a passel o' poor ole critters like us!" Her cackle of embittered laughter was interrupted by the low, cultivated voice of the belle of the Home, "Butterfly Blossy." "We've got to do something," said Blossy firmly. When Blossy spoke with such decision, every one of the sisters pricked up her ears.
"Shut yo' mouf, or Ah done gib yo' plenty to think erbout!" ordered Sambo angrily. That word "football" set Dick Prescott to tingling. He knew there was some hidden meaning in what Tom had said. "Are you trying to signal us, Sambo?" queried the army officer. That word "signal" was intended only for Tom's ear, for Lieutenant Prescott was beginning to guess at the truth.
"I knows, now, old roof tree," she murmured. "I've done found out erbout ye," and her hand patted the close-knit bark.
Thar war no address on anything in the tent or thar spare-close, and no one hed seen them in Fayville or tharerbouts, so I reckoned thay come clar ercross the mountains from Kentuck. Mebbe, ef I hed hed more money, I mought hev found out erbout them; but us war powerful po'r them days.
There he paused, and the quaint phrase he had employed to express prosperity and thrift summed up his one argument for materialistic considerations. "Thet's jest one reason," went on Caleb Harper, soberly, "an' save fer statin' hit es I goes along I hain't got nuthin' more ter say erbout hit albeit hit seems ter me a right pithy matter fer young folks ter study erbout.
"Yes, I kilt him.... He hed done beat me an' he war chokin' me.... His misuse of me war what him an' Ken fell out erbout.... I war too proud ter tell anybody else ... but Ken knowed.... I was faintin' away with John's fingers on my throat.... We was right by ther table whar his own pistol lay.... I grabbed hit up an' shot. Ken come ter ther door jest es hit went off."
Then he answered her silent incitement in words: "Hit's too late, Dorothy.... I'd only git you kilt as well as me.... I reckon they hain't grudgin' you none, es things stands now." But the mob leader laughed, and turning his face to the wife, he ruthlessly tore away even that vestige of reassurance. "We hain't makin' no brash promises erbout ther woman, Thornton," he brutally announced.
Nuckles rode close to the woodshed and looked up at him. "'My brother, I fear you be not a Christian, he said. "He swore at the minister. That settled him. "'What's all this erbout? Mr. Nuckles asked me. "'He and his friend are from Missouri, I says.
"Erbout runnin' us off'n ther reservation." "They'd have a fine chance to do that," said Ted, laughing. "It seems they hev some sort o' a club, ther 'Flyin' somethin' er other' I couldn't jest catch what. To hear them fellers talk they're holy terrors." "How do they propose to run us off? Did you hear that?"
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