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I have dwelt, perhaps tediously, upon this swap; my excuses are first, that, having made few such good bargains during the days of my vanity, the memory is a pleasant one; and, second, that the horse will necessarily play a certain part in these memoirs. "Well, we'll be pushin' an, Billy," said M'Nab; "the sun's gittin' low. An' you needn't tail me up enny fardher," he added, turning to Rufus.
It's no wonder, for it's a pretty hard job to work them levers for twelve hours at a stretch without an interval, even for meals, but I'm gittin' used to it like the eels to bein' skinned." "It's a great shame of the Company," cried Mrs Natly with indignation. "Come, come," cried Sam, "no treason! It ain't such a shame as it looks.
Bristow, over on the other side from here he's got a big drove of hawgs." "Well, mebbe so," said the man; "but hawgs is a heap more apt to be feedin' on high ground, seems like to me. Well, I'll be gittin' along towards town. G'day, squire." And he slapped the lines down on the mare's flank and jogged off through the dust. He could not have suspected anything that man couldn't.
"Thar'll be mischief atween them two afore long," remarked an old drover; "Lorimer is gittin' to hate the captain with such a vim that he's no appetite for his food left." "It'll be a fair fight, and one or both'll get upped; that's about it." At length they met a party of returning drovers, and half a dozen men among them were willing to take David's place.
A little rest and attention had entirely restored his good-humour; and when Dr. Paul went into the tent to see that all was safe for the night, he found him sitting up in bed with a gleeful countenance, prattling like a little angel. 'We had an offul funny time 'bout my gittin' losted, didn't we, mamma? chuckled he, with his gurgling little laugh.
He looked away as he spoke, and the tall foreman grunted audibly. "Well," he drawled, "they ain't much to explain. The sheepmen have been gittin' so free up on our range that I've had a little trouble with 'em and if I was the boss they'd be more trouble, you can bet your life on that.
They had matched their wits for a wrestle, and when the grapple was over it was over. Shorty therefore replied pleasantly: "O, jest loafin' back here, gittin' well o' a crack on the head and the camp fever." "Into anything to put in the time?" "Naah," said Shorty weariedly. "Nearly dead for something.
Her eyes rested a moment upon him, before she could gather voice to say: "Will you let me stay with you, Pappy Lon, for a few days?" "I'll let ye stay till I tell ye to go," growled Lon, "and I don't want no sniveling, nuther." "When are you going to tell me to go?" "When I like. Middy's gittin' the skiff ready to take ye out. Scoot there, and light a fire in the hut!
He's down whar they're geth'rin' cawn, I reckon." Seizing a split broom as she spoke, she brushed the hearth, then gave a tap with her foot to the smouldering logs, which broke into a blaze and sent a shower of sparks up the wide chimney. "The days is gittin' cooler, 'spesh'ly ez night comes on.
It's a bad place, called Shawnee Rock, an' I'll show it to ye termorrer. The renegade, with his red devils, attacked us thar, an' we had a time gittin' away. Milly wus shot.
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