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I figgered afterward mebby that was why he sent me the books. He wanted to show me he was right. "Jimmy, there ain't anything on earth that's got more colours than a bear! I've seen black bears as white as snow, an' I've seen grizzlies almost as black as a black bear. I've seen cinnamon black bears an' I've seen cinnamon grizzlies, an' I've seen browns an' golds an' almost-yellows of both kinds.
'Course I don't aim to camp on you." "You're sure welcome," said Shoop heartily. "It gets lonesome up here. But if you ain't got no reg'lar plan I was thinkin' of ridin' over to Sheep Crossin' and mebby on down to Jason." "Suits me fine!" Shoop heaved himself up. Lorry whistled shrilly. Gray Leg, across the mesa, raised his head. Lorry whistled again.
"Not on your tin-type, Sun." "I never thought you was crooked, Billy." "Crooked!" flashed Corliss. "Say, you you forget it. I'm here to get what's coming to me. Jack turned me down, so I'm going to take what's mine." "Mebby it's yours, but you ain't gettin' it right," said Sundown. "I I never thought you was " "Oh, cut that out! You didn't used to be so dam' particular."
"Them there true-be-doors," he muttered, "like Billy used to say, sure had the glad job singin' and wrastlin' out po'try galore! A singin'-man sure gets the ladies. Now if I was to take on a little weight mebby . . ." His weird soliloquy was broken by a sharp and excited bark. Chance was standing in the trail, and beyond him there was something . . .
Anon we would go round a curve, a ledge of rocks mebby, and lo! far off a openin' through the woods would show us a lovely picture of hill and dell, blue water and blue mountains in the distance. And then a green wood picture, shut in and lonely, with tall ferns, and wild flowers, and thick green grasses under the bendin' trees.
This was a serious problem. The orphans had really disgraced themselves this time, and something must be done. "Let's go and ask Susan Winters; she'll know," suggested Hannah. "Mebby hers might 'a' run away once when the minister called." Jake shook his head mournfully. He was quite sure such a thing could never have happened in the Winters' well-managed family.
"Why, I shall buy another mare, most probable some gay-colored one, and hitch it before the old white mare, and drive tantrum. You know, it is all the style. Mebby," says he dreamily, "I shall ride the drag. I s'pose that is fashionable. But I'll be hanged if I should think it would be easy ridin' unless you had the teeth down.
But ever since that killin' up to his place, I been sore at the whole doggone outfit runnin' this here world. What does a fella git, anyhow, for stickin' up for himself, if he runs against a killer? He gits bumped off or mebby he kills the other fella and gits run out of the country or hung. Pardners stick, don't they?
But he stopped stun still and sez he, "Mebby I ought to go and help her Samantha." Sez I, "Josiah Allen, sense I lived with you, I don't think I have been shamder of you;" sez I, "it would mortify her to death if she should mistrust you had seen her in that condition." "Wall," sez he, still a hangin' back, "if the child is very sick, and I can be any help to her, it is my duty to go."
"Mebby he couldn't help folks like ole Mis' Cummins an' Spectacle John. Ole Hughie Cameron said Spectacle John was a son of Belial, an' I bet that's right, 'cause he won't let us go near daddy's mill. Say" he looked up, and put the question in an awed whisper "are you a son o' Belial, too? Silas Long said you was." There was no reply to this, and the boy sat regarding John McIntyre thoughtfully.
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