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The big booming voice of Charles W. Furse was frequently heard, but in it a suspicion of an Academic note unfamiliar in our midst, so that, young as he was, combative, enthusiastic, "a good fellow" as they say in England, still in his Whistler and rebel period, his friends predicted for him the Presidency of the Royal Academy.
"We didn't rightly know what all the furse was about, and there wasn't nobody who could tell us, because the steamboat cap'ns who come here for wood couldn't wait to talk about it. But we know now, and I do think that some on us had oughter have a hand in making them Yankees stay where they b'long. I'd go in a minute if it wasn't fur the ole woman and the young ones."
"You didn't hear nothing about them gettin' into a furse afore they went, did you?" "Course I have. Everybody knows that you an' Clarence thought Don was ole Jordan an' shet him up in the tater-hole." "An' sarved him right, too," exclaimed Godfrey. "I reckon he's well paid fur cheatin' me outen that chance of making eighty thousand dollars.
But I say deliberate that pigs has got no call to be in a cow country, not none, unless salted. Say, can't we salt this one? Then, who's the worse off for it? What's all this furse about, anyway?" "That's right, Curly," said Dan Anderson, who stood with hands in pockets and pipe in mouth, leaning against the door-jamb in front of his "law office."
I'm sorry he quit us." "It's the girl," said her husband sententiously. "Yes. But" smiling grimly "one furse don't make a parting." "She's same as promised Sam Woodhull, Molly, and you know that." "Before he got whipped by Colonel Banion." "Colonel! Fine business for an officer! Woodhull told me he tripped and this other man was on top of him and nigh gouged out his two eyes.
"Did Cal have much money with him?" he asked, finally. "Not so awful much, near's the boys can tell. Mebbe a few hundred, fer spendin' money, like." "Had he had any furse with ary feller down in there lately?" "Nope, not that any one knows of. He just done went off over the range, an' fanned out, seems like, without no special reason."
He has ridden that one horse all the time, while we have had to change now and then. He spent one night with Jeff in this cabin " "And the way he did pull the wool over our eyes was a caution," Nels interposed. "Why, if you could a heard him talk you would a thought, as we did, that he had been gunning for Union men and living on 'em ever since the furse began.
The National Observer passed out of Henley's hands and Henley himself into the Valley of the Shadow. Bob Stevenson said his last good-night to us. Beardsley, Harland, Arthur Tomson, George Steevens, Phil May, Furse, Iwan-Müller one after another of our old friends, one after another of those old masters of talk set out on the journey into the Great Silence. It is hard to believe they have gone.
"The dogs made furse enough that night to wake up everybody in Nashville; but they didn't none of 'em do nothing, and that shows that they were afraid of the crowd that was there. My folks was that scared that they dassent none of 'em look out of the winder; but the next morning the letter that was put on the gallery and the stuff to burn the house was both there."
It certainly would not take him three or four hours to gather these few articles together. "Pap's mighty 'feared that he'll do something he can make somebody else do fur him," thought the boy. "But he needn't think he's goin' to get me into a furse. I ain't agoin' to steal no canoe fur nobody."
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