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He didn't do it atall." "Who did, then?" "The men they rode up a gang-they did it," panted Evarts. "Did you know who they were?" "No. I couldn't tell. I saw them comin' an' I was skeered. Bernardino had gone fer water. I run an' hid in the brush. I wanted to yell, but they come too close.... Then I heerd them talkin'. Bernardino come back. They 'peared friendly-like.
"Ain't you the Guvvermunt doctor for all Injuns?" asked Aunt Ri, wrathfully. "Thet's what I heerd."
"None that I ever heerd of unless it be to marry a meeker wife. Thar's something in marriage that works contrariwise, an' even a worm of a man will begin to try to trample if he marries a worm of a woman. Who's that ridin' over the three roads, young Adam?" "It's Abel Revercomb. Come in an' pass the time of day with us, Abel."
Some say he war dishonest, and so had to cut loose from Pennsylvany; but I never heerd of his stealing anything in Kentucky; I reckon thar's too much of the chicken about him for that. Some say he is hunting rich lands; which war like enough for anybody that war not so poor and lazy.
"I say, if I was you fellers, you know, I wouldn't stay in that old cabin a single night." "Why?" asked Jack. "Because," said Pewee, "I've heerd tell that it is ha'nted." "Ghosts aren't anything when you get used to them," said Jack. "We don't mind them at all." "Don't you?" said Pewee, who was now rowing against the current. "No," said Bob, "nor dough-faces, neither." As Mr.
"Would you know the tall man again if you were to see him?" inquired the coroner. "Na, for ye ken I could na see a feature o' his face." "Would you know the girl again?" "Na. I could na see the lass ony mair than the gallant." "Nor the third man?" "Na, nor the ither ane." "Did you hear any name or any place spoken of between the parties?" "Na, na name, na pleece. I hae tuld your honor all I heerd.
Why, the only way I knowed if thet pistol went off or not was by watchin' fur the smoke: the critters kep' up such a squealin' that I couldn't hear you speak a word. I'll bet my hoss agin a chaw of terbacker that them boys hain't heerd a shot we've fired, an' dunno we're within five miles on 'em."
But I want you to understand without question how you stand on the ranch." "Quite good, sir," said Tim very quietly. "When you were out here before I was glad to have you here as a sort of guest. Then you were what I've heerd called a gentleman of leisure. Now you're nothin' but a remittance man. Your money's nothin' to me, but the principle of the thing is.
City Marshal," said Sir Charles, in atone that implied secrecy, "I have given it out that I shall leave the camp for home day after to-morrow." "Yes, I had heerd talk," answered Jim Woppit. "You are going by the stage." "Certainly, by the stage," said Sir Charles, "but not day after to-morrow; I go to-morrow." "To-morrow, sir?" "To-morrow," repeated Sir Charles.
I heerd ole marse tell ole miss he wuz gwine take yo' Sam 'way wid 'im ter-morrow, fer he needed money, an' he knowed whar he could git a t'ousan' dollars fer Sam an' no questions axed. "W'en Sam come home f'm de fiel', dat night, I tole him 'bout ole marse gwine steal 'im, an' Sam run erway.
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