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Gol darn his pictur'! Think o' bein' kicked by a bird an' havin' to be picked up an' carried off to be mended. We took a long, crooked trail hum an' walked all the way. It's kind o' hard footin'." Solomon spoke with the animation of a boy. At last he had found something in London which had pleased and excited him. "Did you have a good time at Sir Jeffrey's?" the young man asked.
After she begins freezin' she'll keep freezin' and ice is like to make fast," Toby explained. "The ice'll hold us in one or two days after she fastens, whatever, and there'll be fine footin' then to Double Up Cove." "Then we're not likely to be here very long, and that's a comfort," said Charley, much relieved. "Not so long, I'm thinkin'," agreed Toby.
I'm lonesome as one bug all alone in a buffler robe. See any footin' over 'cross? I'm gittin' tired o' this outpost business. All foolishness. We'll know when we strike th' red devils. No need o' havin' some one tell us. Your hoss looks sorter peaked. S'pose we'll have a mess of a fight soon? We boys come along to fight, not to stand like stockade-timbers out here all alone."
Andrew Jackson an' General Tom Thumb a-walkin' down the path. "'What shall we do? says I. "'Come along, says he. 'We aint a-goin' to stop for them. Get up, all the same. "I tried to get up as he said, but it wasn't so easy for me on account of my not bein' such a high stepper as Jone, an' I was a good while a-gettin' a good footin' on the board. "Mrs.
"Throth," said Darby, after shaking hands with the priest and greeting the rest of the company, "the same boy no one could spake ill of; and, although we and his people were not upon the best footin', still the sarra one o' me but always gave him his due." "Indeed, I believe you, Darby," said his father; "but are you comfortable? Draw your chair nearer the fire the evenin's gettin' cowld."
What was he doing this far away from the water-hole route? Had he found a trail which led him in this direction? Or had he been jumped somewhere by Kitchell’s pack of wolves and forced along for some purpose of their own? "Was he ridin’, Sergeant?" Drew asked, hardly knowing why. "No—footin’ it. Said somethin’ about Long Canyon after we gave him a pull at a canteen.
"You wouldn't be truly happy, Sol Hyde," said Jim Hart, "'less you wuz ridin' in a gilt coach drawed by four white horses, right smack through the woods here." "That's heaven," said the shiftless one, with a deep sigh. "I don't ever dream o' sech a thing ez that, and please don't call it up to my mind, Jim Hart; the contras' between that an' footin' it ez I am now is too cruel an' too great."
That last was improvised, wasn't it?" "Nope. Just naturalized. I make 'em up when I'm ridin' along, to kind of fit into the scenery. Impervisin' gets my wind." "Well, if you are singing when we finish, you're a wonder," stated Bartley. "Oh, I'm a wonder, all right! And mebby I don't feel like a plumb fool, footin' it into Steve's ranch with no hosses and no bed-roll and no reputation.
I'll see you some other evening. "The very next night a bunch of scenery tumbles over. The race is goin' on, 'n' Edwin Booth is layin' down to it right. A piece of scenery either falls under his feet or else jims the machine, I never knows which, anyhow, all of a sudden the hoss gets real footin'. Bingo! We're on our way like we're shot out of a gun.
"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."
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