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Beside his own people, motley in character and costume creole, Kentuckian, Indian, half-breed, hired trapper, and free trapper he was surrounded by encampments of Nez Perces and Flatheads, with their droves of horses covering the hills and plains. It was, he declares, a wild and bustling scene.
Once a colonel appeared on the verge of assaulting a major, when a huge seven-foot Kentuckian gentleman horse-dealer, asked of the heavens to confound them both, and bade them sit still and be d d.
General Wood was colonel of the Second Regular Cavalry, a Kentuckian who had earnestly taken the National side, and an influential officer of the old army. His intelligence and activity were very marked, and his courage was of the cool indomitable character most highly prized in divisions of a great army.
If, in order to keep Shiloh, he had to give up what he knew now was a very vague dream—he would surrender the dream every time. Although he knew that was the truth, the Kentuckian was desperately unhappy as he made a lengthy business of adjusting the canteens. About the worst words one could ever speak, or think, were "too late." This was all too late—twenty years too late.
"I don't quite see why any one sh'd elect to take a hand in any such doin's unless he has to," the Kentuckian resumed, after a pause; "that census business seems kind of inquisitive some way to me." "But it seems to me that it's the right kind of 'inquisitive."
While he was writing this history Adams said to me: "There is an old villain next to Andrew Jackson the greatest villain of his time a Kentuckian don't say he was a kinsman of yours! whose papers, if he left any, I want to see." "To whom are you referring?" I asked with mock dignity. "To John Adair," he answered.
Besancon and the Kentuckian both denied that any species of ointment would serve as a protection against mosquitoes. The doctor joined them in their denial. They asserted that they had tried everything that could be thought of camphor, ether, hartshorn, spirits of turpentine, etcetera.
When Austin had first called Seymour, the Colonel started, looked up, and watched the little scene with suspicion and growing anger. Seeing Seymour's eyes turn his way, the Kentuckian stopped shovelling, and, on a sudden impulse, called out: "See here, Austin: if you've any complaints to make, sah, you'd better make them to my face, sah."
"Nevah foh a moment, suh," one elderly well-preserved Kentuckian had said, "will I deny the Dillon mare the right to be the public's choice. But she has nevah met such a field of hosses as this, suh and she lacks the bone to carry top weight against them." There had been many nods of approval at this statement, and I had gone to the Dillon party for consolation.
"Do you track 'im thur, Mark?" cried Ike to his comrade from the opposite side. "No," was the reply, "he hain't gone out this away." "Nor hyur," responded Ike. "Nor here," said the Kentuckian. "Nor by here," added the hunter-naturalist. "Belike, then, he's still in the timmor," said Redwood. "Now look out all of yees. Keep your eyes skinned; I'll hustle him out o' thar."
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