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A woman like you don't have to apologize for nothin'. But you was not brung up in the woods, an' you can't expect to know all about a gun jest by heftin' it. Folks that's been brung up in town, like you, have to be told how to handle a gun. This here gun ain't loaded. And them 'ere's the powder an' buckshot to load her with.

As the menacing face hung over him, Maggard saw it school itself slowly into a hard composure and read a peremptory warning for silence in the eyes. The outstretched hands had already touched him, and now they remained holding his shoulders as the voice answered: "Cal jest woke up. I reckon he war outen his head, an' I'm heftin' him up so's he kin breath freer."

A Angel told me he was, and went on to say the man was dreadful pleased to find he'd been wearin' a bundle the Head Man hisself had made and fixed on him, heftin' it and sizin' it, and heftin' him and sizin' him too, so's 'twa'n't too much for him to carry. But he ain't carryin' it no more. The Angel said so. The Boy that was Scaret o' Dyin'

Nott stooped down, and picking up one of the coins handed it gravely to Renshaw. "Would ye mind heftin' that 'ere coin in your hand feelin' it, bitin' it, scrapin' it with a knife, and kinder seem' how it compares with other coins?" "What do you mean?" said Renshaw.

"What's aboot a bit chuckle an' a heftin' o' cake? Haivers!" But very quickly Ralph prevailed upon him, and Jock took the guinea. At his usual swift wolf's lope he was out of sight over the long stretches of heather and turf so speedily that he arrived at the drying-ground on the hillside before Luckie MacMorrine, handicapped by her twenty stone avoirdupois, had perspired thither.

"Would ye mind heftin' that 'ere coin in your hand feelin' it, bitin' it, scrapin' it with a knife, and kinder seein' how it compares with other coins?" "What do you mean?" said Renshaw. "I mean that that yer coin that ALL the coins in this yer box, that all the coins in them other boxes and ther's forty on 'em is all and every one of 'em counterfeits!"