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"Well, I've never seen one o' that kind," said he, "and I've seen lots of Injuns. I was in the Seminole war, in this State, and was fightin' Injuns from the beginnin' to the end of it. And I know all about how to treat the rascals. You must hang 'em, or shoot 'em, as soon as you get hold of 'em."
'In Turkey Walley, teacher, he says, 'five times eleven apples is sixty-five. They raises bigger apples there. "Leander's legs unsprung. He ketched Ernest by the hair and lifted him to the platform. Boys, you otter 'a' seen it. It was David and Goliath all over agin, only fightin' fair. Havin' Leander holdin' his hair give the boy an advantage it was two hands agin one.
"Talkin' about calves," said Ben Bowline as they were walking on in a body through the woods, "there was another adventure of mine which " "You're a liar!" suddenly interrupted a strident voice speaking in Spanish and then some bad language in the same tongue followed. "Mah goodness, dat am fightin' talk!" exclaimed Bucephalus. "Ah wouldn' stan' dat, Sailorman."
"Why, it's worse than when you beat Black Baruk; and if it weren't for your topcoat, I couldn't swear you were the man who led me to the altar! If the King of England ask you, I'll never let you do it more." "Well, old lass, I give my davy that I never will. It's best that I leave fightin' before fightin' leaves me." He screwed up his face as he took a sup from Sir Charles's brandy flask.
"You act amazin' strange fer a cowboy I've knowed to lean toward fightin' at the drop of a hat. I tell you, speak out an' I'll do right by you.... I ain't forgettin' thet White Slides gave you a hard knock. An' I was young once an' had hot blood." The old rancher's wrathful pathos stirred the cowboy to a straining-point of his unnatural, almost haughty composure.
"But the other people," Joe objected, "those outside of what is called the saloon element do you understand how many of them will be against me?" "It iss der tsaloon element," Mr. Farbach returned, peacefully, "dot does der fightin'." "And you have considered my standing with that part of Canaan which considers itself the most respectable section?"
Man, it was hellish guid, and frae this day I'm a Socialist. I've always been fightin' the oppressors o' the workers, an' only wish I had a tongue like Hardie, so that I could gang roon' the hale country tellin' folk the rale God's truth aboot things. Guid God! Rob, it was better than goin' to the kirk!" "Ay, it was gran', Tam.
At last: "Well, you all know what my next move is; what's yours?" There was another silence, but not nearly so long. "What prospects, pardners?" he repeated. The Boy looked at Maudie. She made a little gesture of "I've done all the fightin' I'm good for." The Colonel's eyes, clear again and tranquil, travelled from face to face. O'Flynn cleared his throat, but it was Mac who spoke.
The grass in the valley was brown with frost, and the trees were shorn of their leaves by the winter winds, but to Dick it was the finest village that he had ever seen, and these were the friendliest people in the world. He drank a cup of hot coffee handed to him by the stalwart wife of a farmer, and then, when she insisted, drank another. "You're young to be fightin'," she said sympathetically.
Nobody is nowadays, but you talk like them fightin' an' prayin' old fellers, an' you wander 'roun' the West jest ez they wandered 'bout the land o' Canaan, but shore that you will git to your journey's end at last.
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