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That had come off when it fell out of my pocket, I presume likely." "Yes. . . . Yes, I guess likely it did. Must have. . . . Er Sam, let me show you that gull vane. I got it so now that " "Hold on a minute. I'm mighty interested about your findin' this money. It's so so sort of unexpected, as you might say. If that band came off it must have broke when the money tumbled down behind the boards.
"I didn't know it," replied Brandt, adopting his old vernacular; "but I guessed as much, for I knew there was more'n one shady feller in this gang, and I took my chances on findin' you, for, says I to myself, if I can find Bute, I've found the right man to help me crack a ranch when there's some risk and big plunder."
"I jest love wild goose," said Shif'less Sol, "speshully when it's fat an' tender, an' I'm thinkin' this swamp is a good place for wild geese. When we come in here we didn't think what a fine home we wuz findin'. Since the tribes an' the renegades have sworn to wipe us out, an' we're hid here so snug an' so tight, I don't keer how long I stay." "Nor me either," said Long Jim.
Creech hung around her with a remorse he apparently felt, yet could not put into words. "Do you expect Joel to come up this big canyon?" "I reckon I do some day," replied Creech. "An' I wish he'd hurry." "Does he know the way?" "Nope. But he's good at findin' places. An' I told him to stick to the main canyon.
Sez her husband, "You have to slur men all the time, don't you? You can't see or hear anything without findin' sunthin' to complain of about men. I despise such a sperit; men don't have it." Now, I love justice, and I hate to see my sect imposed upon, and then whenever or wherever I travel, I always bear with me the honorary title I won honorably.
"Wish you had the job of findin' him, mum," said that individual. "Well, sir, there's no one else I could make inquiries of, is there?" "Mrs. Brown seems to have gone the rounds," Mr. Linton said. "I really don't think there's any one else unless my small daughter here can help you," he added laughingly. But Norah had slipped away, foreseeing possible questioning. The trooper smiled.
I had been detailed to hang 'round headquarters till the scrimmage began, but was given liberty to do as I pleased five minutes ago, consequently I came here to find out why the fight ain't on." "We're expectin' you to answer that question, sergeant. You've never been backward in findin' fault with the ways of American soldiers, an' now perhaps you can tell what's gone wrong with the Britishers?"
A good man sent me to college, and I've just graduated and come back to look up my friends." "Frinds, is it, ye'll be afther a findin'? Thin ye'd bist look ilsewhar, fer thur's no one in this alley fit to be frinds with the loikes uv you. Ef that's wot they does with b'ys at co-lidge a pity 'tis more uv um can't git shot an' go there.
"I never sees so much rabbit footin'. I'm thinkin' 'tis far enough so the dogs'll not be findin' the snares, and we'll start to set un here." "Are these all rabbit tracks?" asked Charley in amazement. "There must be thousands of them!" "Aye, there's a rare fine band of un about," agreed Toby with an appraising glance. "Here's a fine run, now! We'll be settin' the first snare on this run."
"He's done everything but say mass over me," says I. "Piddie is a good deal of an " then he pulls up. "Where the deuce did he find you?" "It wasn't him found me," says I; "it was a case of me findin' him; but if it hadn't been for your old man's buttin' in, that's all the good it would have done me." "Ah!" says he. "That explains the mystery. By the way, son, what do they call you?"
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