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"Well, what d'ye say y' could paddle for, when y' couldn't?" "I can paddle. I paddled as long as I had anythin' but a sthick." "Oh, you dum landlubber!" smirked Glover. "What if I should order ye to the masthead?" "I wouldn't go," asseverated Sweeny. "I'll moind no man who isn't me suparior officer. I've moindin' enough to do in the arrmy. I wouldn't go, onless the liftinint towld me.
She might not get an opportunity to drop anything for some time after leaving the fork." "That's true, sir," said Cooler; "the redskins would naturally be watching her closely. Which way will you go, Paul?" "Let the liftinint say," answered the elder scout, tightening his belt and readjusting his equipments for resuming his riding.
"Not far from here, Tom. Just west of the middle of the race-course." "And the thaves are going to camp and cook their supper on the other side?" "So they said." "Thin we'll attimpt to interfare with their arrangemints. I think the liftinint will commind an 'absence without lave' if we bring in the raskils and the ponies."
Now it is not an uncommon thing for recruits to dread to discharge their arms in battle. They have a vague idea that, if they bang away, they will attract the notice of some antagonist who will immediately single them out for retaliation. "Are you afraid anybody will hit you?" asked Thurstane. "No, I ain't, Liftinint," jabbered Sweeny. "I ain't afeard av them niggers a bit.
"Don't you think it is probable," I asked, "that a girl who was thoughtful enough to drop a 'sign' to show she is alive and a captive, would be likely to give a hint here as to which trail she was taken over?" "That's prob'ble, liftinint," replied Weaver. "'F you'll hold th' boys here a bit, George an' I'll ride up th' two trails a piece an' look for signs." "Go quite a distance, too.
I asked the guides if it was not probable the Apaches had set a watch on the overlooking heights to see which road we should take at this point. "It's sartin', liftinint," answered Weaver; "they're watchin' us sharp jest now." "Then we had better continue on the northern trail awhile and mislead them, you think?" "That's it, liftinint. That's th' best thing to do.
I was beginning to fear I should be obliged to offer terms to the Indians, leaving them unhurt if they would yield up their captive and the stolen stock; but before I had fully considered this alternative Clary, who was returning along the rear of the line of tents from his recent errand, approached and said: "Liftinint, as I was crapin' along behoind th' wiggies I saw somethin' loike a purty white hand stickin' out from undher th' edge of th' third from this ind."
Bedad, but you ought to be ashamed of yoursilf to be playin' these pranks a lad of your age, that's hitherto been the patthern of good behaviour! But wait a little, my man sthop till I tell the first liftinint of your outhrageous conduct "
And the divil a bitter chance any man of us all has of promotion thin yoursilf, Captin: for it'll be mighty strange if our fat Major doesn't git riddlid like a cullinder through and through with the bullits from the Ingians' rifles before we have quite done with this business, and thin you will have the rigimintal majority, Captin; and it may be that one Liftinint Murphy, who is now the sanior of his rank, may come in for the vacant captincy."
They may shoot their bow arrays at me all day if they want to. I'm afeard of me gun, Liftinint. I fired it wonst, an' it kicked me to blazes." "Come, come! That won't do. Level it now. Pick out your man. Aim. Fire." Thus constrained, Sweeny brought his piece down to an inclination of forty-five degrees, shut his eyes, pulled trigger, and sent a ball clean over the most distant Apaches.
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