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I'll stand here while your sister reads that letter. He said the answer would be just 'yes' or 'no, and I shouldn't have to wait long. 'She ain't one to teeter long on a decision, says he; 'she finds her footin' one side or the other. He talks queer, queerer'n ever sence he was hurt. I pity anybody that gets him."
She wasn't born or thought of, so far as we was concerned, when we were all three mates up the bush." "Ah, all three!" "Steel, Minchin, and me," nodded Abel, as his cutty glowed. "And you were mates!" "Well, we were and we weren't: that's just it," said Abel, resentfully. "It would be better for some coves now, if we'd all been on the same footin' then. But that we never were.
"Christian," I cried, pointing to the seared spots on the leather. Jud crushed the cap in his fingers. "He's got back," he said. "Was he ridin' a horse?" "Footin' it," answered Ump, "an' by himself. That's what makes me leary. Them others are up to somethin' or they'd a come with him. He's had just about time to make the trip on Shank's mare by takin' short cuts.
I gets t' un an' makes a footin' on th' rock. I gets out my knife an' finds th' ice breaks easy, an' cuts a hole an' crawls out. By th' time I gets on th' ice I were pretty handy t' givin' up wi' th' cold." "'Twere a close call," assented Dick, as he puffed at his pipe meditatively. "How far did un go under th' ice?" asked Bill, who had been much interested in the narrative. "Handy t' two mile."
The acquaintance which I formed wi' this amiable creature soon ripened into the most ardent affection, an' I had every reason, very early, to believe that my love was returned. The subsequent progress of our intimacy established the delightful fact. We eventually stood on the footin o' avowed, an' all but absolutely betrothed lovers.
"Now, lad," said the smith, "bring along the bellows and follow me. Mind yer footin', for it's slippery walkin' on them tangle-covered rocks. I've seen some ugly falls here already." "Have any bones been broken yet?" enquired Ruby, as he shouldered the large pair of bellows, and followed the smith cautiously over the rocks. "Not yet; but there's been an awful lot o' pipes smashed.
"Settin' up traps makes for hunger," said he. "Fill up now." "I was just hollow!" confessed Charley. "And I was hungrier'n a starved wolf!" added Toby. Their course now left the river valley, and presently came upon a wide frozen marsh, or "mesh" as Skipper Zeb called it. "'Tis here on the meshes we finds the best fox footin'," he explained to Charley.
Put Greyfeather an’ his Pimas on ’em an’ then leg it till your belly’s near meetin’ your backbone an’ you is all one big tired ache. Iffen you kin drink sand an’ keep on footin’ it over red-hot rocks when you is nigh t’ a bag o’ bones, then maybe—jus’ maybe—you kin jump an Apache.
"I bleeve he's takin' advantage, sir, of the frost, to get in his praties to-day, in respect of the bad footin', sir, for the horses in the bog when there's not a frost. Any how, betune that and a bit of a sore head that he got, yer Reverence, on Thursday last in takin' part wid the O'Scallaghans agin the Bradys, I bleeve he had to stay away to-day." "On the Sabbath day, too, without my leave!
It was not a hard walk; there were a good many almost level stretches through the woods, in spite of the fact that they should be a very great deal higher when they reached Mrs. Dallett's door. "I do declare, what a nice day 't is, an' such pretty footin'!" said Mrs. Hand, with satisfaction.
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