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The whole Diamond Dot seemed to rest right on top o' my soul: the air didn't smell sweet, I got so I'd lie awake at night, food grew so fearless it could look me right in the face without flinchin'; but one night I saw Merry England with his arm around Barbie's waist, an' that settled it.
"Though the blood was boilin' in me enraged veins and dribblin' down my face like the rain to-night, by the help o' the Lord, I felt no pain. Never flinchin' nor takin' heed o' that bold baste of a squaw, I bawled like a bull of Bashan, 'Bring that Indian to me, coward-hearted Sioux d' y' fear an Iroquois? Bring him to me and I'll make him enrich your tribe! "Faith!
"In the dear old cabin," said Christie quickly; "I remember it; I wish we were there now." "Do you really? Do you?" said Whiskey Dick, with suddenly twinkling eyes. "That's like you to say it. That's what I allus said," continued Dick, addressing space generally; "if there's any one ez knows how to come square down to the bottom rock without flinchin', it's your high-toned, fash'nable gals.
"You've heard of Pike, hain't you?" "I don't know as I have," said Mr. Bickford. The stranger frowned. "You must have been born in the woods not to have heard of Pike County," he said. "The smartest fighters come from Pike. I kin whip my weight in wildcats, am a match for a dozen Indians to onst, and can tackle a lion without flinchin'." "Sho!" said Joshua, considerably impressed.
Some day, Hinnissy, justice'll be done me, an' th' likes iv me; an', whin th' story iv a gr-reat battle is written, they'll print th' kilt, th' wounded, th' missin', an' th' seryously disturbed. An' thim that have bore thimsilves well an' bravely an' paid th' taxes an' faced th' deadly newspa-apers without flinchin' 'll be advanced six pints an' given a chanst to tur-rn jack f'r th' game.
"You know that we may never get out of here alive, and I know it, too." "You speak truth, lad," said Crockett, very soberly. "But remember that it's a chance we take every day here in the southwest. An' it's pleasant to know that they're all brave men here together. You haven't seen any flinchin' on the part of anybody an' I don't think you ever will." "What are you going to do now?" asked Ned.
"As soon as the money was staked, I said, 'Hadn't we better, says I, 'draw stakes? That 'ere blood horse of your'n has such uncommon particular bottom, he'll perhaps leave me clean out of sight. 'No fear of that, said he, larfin', 'but he'll beat you easy, anyhow. No flinchin', says he, 'I'll not let you go back of the bargain.
I've looked at it without flinchin' for good ten minutes, and not the smallest sign of motion can I detect." "So might you say of the hour-hand of a watch," observed Lawrence. "Not at all," retorted the Captain, becoming argumentative.
Well, as I was a-sayin', we'll never betray honest men, but I give you fair warnin' if you're not honest, we'll have nothin' to do wi' your secrets, an' if our duty to God an' man requires us to go against you, we'll do it without flinchin'." "So be it. I am satisfied," returned Ravonino, calmly. "I will tell you as much as I think you are entitled to know.
No fear of that, said he, larfin, but he'll beat you easy, any how. No flinchin, says he, I'll not let you go back of the bargain. Its run or forfeit. Well, says I, friend, there is fear of it; your horse will leave me out of sight, to a sartainty, thats a fact, for he CANT KEEP UP TO ME NO TIME. I'll drop him, hull down, in tu twos. If old Clay did'nt make a fool of him, its a pity.