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I felt sick at heart while my companion recited these horrors. "But it's a curious fact," he continued after a pause, during which we walked in silence towards the spot where we had left our comrades "it's a curious fact that wherever the missionaries get a footin' all these things come to an end at once, an' the savages take to doin' each other good and singin' psalms, just like Methodists."
"Made a pillow and a bed of me, skated on me, bowled me over like a tenpin." "I ce'tainly was awkward. Couldn't get my footin' at all, seemed like. Why, where's Barney?" Apparently the trader had just made a discovery. "Ask of the winds, 'Oh, where?" Beresford dusted off his coat, his trousers, and his cap.
If she comes she'll cover the footin' wonderful fast, and you might be goin' abroad from the trail. The wind'll be risin' a bit, and if she blows hard 'twill make for nasty traveling and I'm thinkin' when the snow starts the wind'll come up quick, and be blowin' wonderful hard before you knows un." "Oh, I'll be all right," Charley assured confidently.
As he went along, too, he kept a strong grasp upon overhanging vines and bushes that grew out from earth-filled crevices. He had gone down only a short distance when he paused thoughtfully. "This hyar wind air blowin' powerful brief," he said. "I mought get chilled an' lose my footin'."
"'Twere nothin' to that un." "An' where were that?" asked Dick. "I were out o' tea in March, an' handy to havin' no tobaccy, an' I says t' myself, 'Ed, ye can't stay in th' bush till th' break up wi' nary a bit o' tea, and ye'd die wi'out tobaccy. 'Twere fair goin' wi' good hard footin' an' I makes fine time.
"There's no use tryin' t' foller him in this snow," said he to himself, "I'd be sure t' miss him. But I'll take the tent an' outfit away on his flat sled an' if he don't have cover th' cold'll fix him before mornin'. There'll be no livin' in it over night with th' wind blowin' a gale as it's goin' to do with dark. My footin' 'll soon be hid an' he can't foller me.
I was footin' up what I owed what the store owes, I mean just now, and it come to a pretty high figure. Over twelve hundred, it was. That's GOT to be paid. Then there's Gertie's schoolin' and her board. Course, I never tell her we ain't so well off as we were. You and I agreed she shouldn't know. But it takes a lot of money and " Mrs. Dott sat up on the couch. Her eyes snapped.
"You see, daddy shot himself in the leg stove a bone all to pieces; and mother don't know what to do, so I slid off this mornin' without tellin' anybody." "Countin' on footin' it to Antelope Spring?" Parsons asked as if in surprise. "Yes; it ain't more'n forty-five miles the way we've reckoned it." "Where did you start from?" "Buffalo Meadows."
How 'av we held our footin' here? "'Not well, I am grieved to say, sais he; 'not well. The failure of the United States' Bank, the repudiation of debts by several of our States, the foolish opposition we made to the suppression of the slave-trade, and above all, the bad faith in the business of the boundary question has lowered us down, down, e'en a'most to the bottom of the shaft.
Cut in there an' ye'll see my footin'; foller it over t' th' next lake, then turn right t' th' nuth'ard. The's some meshes in there where th' deer's feedin'. I seen fifteen or twenty, but I didn't want 'em so I let 'em be." "An' could I make un now in a day?" "If ye walk sharp an' start early."
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