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The chest contained six small bags filled to bursting point and securely tied with rawhide; one bag, half-full and open; and a thick packet of Bank of Montreal bills. Nick knelt down and took out the bills and set them on one side. "Ther's fi' thousand dollars ther," he said. "I 'lows they've been reckoned careful." Then he picked up one of the bags and held it up for his brother's inspection.
After that I 'lows we lay low. I did hear as some o' the boys said their prayers that night, which goes to show as they wus feelin' kind o' thin an' mean. Ther' wa'n't a feller ther' but wus dead swore off fer a week. "Guess it wus most the middle o' the night when Jim Yard comes to my shack an' fetched me out. He told me there wus a racket goin' on in the settlement.
"Waal, then," said the admonished orator, bluntly, "Grinnell 'lows ye don't own that thar lan' around them rocks on the bald, no more'n ye read enny writin' on 'em." "Not them rocks!" cried Purdee, standing suddenly erect "the tables o' the Law, writ with the finger o' the Lord an' Moses flung 'em down thar an' bruk 'em. All the kentry knows they air Moses' tables.
I 'lows you're 'bout the on'y man in these parts 'cep' Abe Horsley as fancies hisself enough to wear one. Wher's them things, I ask you? Say," he went on after a moment's pause, during which Jim still remained silent, "I accuse this lousy skunk publicly of murderin' Will Henderson. He's convicted hisself out o' his own mouth, an' he's got the man's blood on his hands.
He 'lows now he's goin' to keep the Injuns out of that valley " "Good God! Why did you let them go?" Davis snorted angrily, and exclaimed: "Let 'em go! How ye goin' to stop her? 'Twas she that was bound to be movin' on. Just made her daddy go." "When did they start?" "Right after you lit out. Seems 's if th' gal couldn't git shut o' this creek quick 'nough."
Finally he applied to Shaky. "Wal," the carpenter began, with a ponderous air of weighing his words. "I ain't the man to judge a feller offhand like. I 'lows I know suthin' o' the blind man o' Skitter Bend, seein' I wus workin' contract fer him all last summer. An' wot I knows is nasty.
He then alluded to an invitation sent to him by Sir Hudson Lows to meet Lady Loudon at his house, and said there could not be an act of more refined cruelty than inviting him to his table by the title of "General," to make him an object of ridicule or amusement to his guests. What right had he to call him "General" Bonaparte?
An' the hay-mower wus to be got ready fer hayin'. She mostly drove that herself, an' I 'lows I wus glad." Arizona paused and took a fresh chew. Then he went on. "Guess you ain't never got hitched?" Tresler denied the impeachment. "Not yet," he said. "Hah! Guess it makes a heap o' diff'rence." "Yes, I suppose so. Sobers a fellow. Makes him feel like settling down." "Wal, maybe."
Ah, sweetly lows the calf, and sweetly the heifer, sweetly sounds the neatherd with his pipe, and sweetly also I! My bed of leaves is strown by the cool water, and thereon are heaped fair skins from the white calves that were all browsing upon the arbutus, on a time, when the south-west wind dashed me them from the height.
Miss Dianny, she likes a feller to git yarnin', an', seein' as I've been punchin' most all through the States, she kind o' notioned my yarns. Which I 'lows is reasonable. She'd fixed my chest up, an' got me trussed neat an' all, an' set right down aside me fer a gas. You know her ways, kind o' sad an' saft.
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