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In half a day I warrant they kin get all the meat they want: but how are they a-goin' to jirk it in less than three? That's what I want to know." "Es verdad!" says one of the Mexicans, a cibolero; "tres dias, al menos!" "Ay, hombre! an' with a smart chance o' sunshine at that, I guess."
They lied, Puddock, my dear boy, an' I'd give twenty pounds this minute I had them on this flure, to tell them how damnably they lied! 'No doubt, Thir, said Puddock, 'but if you pleathe I really mutht have a dithtinct answer to my Be gannies! if I thought it was he that done it, I'd jirk his old bones through the top of the window.
I do not think I exagerate when I estimate the number of Buffaloe which could be compreed at one view to amount to 3000. my object was if possible to kill a female Antelope having already procured a male; I pursued my rout on this plain to the west flanked by my two hunters untill eight in the morning when I made the signal for them to come to me which they did shortly after. we rested our selves about half an hour, and regailed ourselves on half a bisquit each and some jirk of Elk which we had taken the precaution to put in our pouches in the morning before we set out, and drank of the water of a small pool which had collected on this plain from the rains which had fallen some days before.
I like to meet wi' a good man, even though he should be better than mysel and, in the particular o' wrestling, I allow that ye do bang me though I dinna say how we might stand in other respects, for they've no been tried. But it was a fair fa'. 'Od, ye gied me a jirk as though I had been touched by lightning."
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