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Martin was lashin' his jumpin' cayuse away from the mob which sputtered and spit angry shots after him. Bucks were runnin' here and there and hastily mountin' their ponies while an angry roar came to me, punctuated by the poppin' of the guns.
The habitual look of abstraction returned to her eyes as if she had once more taken refuge in her own ideal world. Unfortunately the change did not escape either the sensitive observation or the fatuous misconception of the sagacious parent. "Ye'll be mountin' a few furbelows and fixins, Rosey, I reckon, ez only natural.
"Yis, Capting, thet's Sarmiento, an' nary doubt of it," pursues the old sealer. "I'd reck'noise thet mountin 'mong a millyun. "Why?" inquires the Captain, dubiously. "'Kase it ain't a bay at all; but the entrance to a soun' bearin' the name o' `Whale-Boat Soun'. An' thet's open water too, communicatin' wi' another known ez `Darwin Soun'' the which larst leads right inter the Beagle Channel."
She had been instructed in the delicate art of receiving visitors with whom her intimacy had formerly been marked; but for Monsignor she made an exception, and the glint in her eye, the smile just born in the corner of her emphatic mouth, warned him that she knew of the astonishment which his good breeding concealed. "We're mountin' the laddher o' glory," she said, after the usual questions.
"`Halloo! cried a dozen men, jumpin' at me. `Wot's that for? `Scrag the hunter, cries one. `Howld yer long tongues, an' hear what he's got to say, shouts an Irishman. "`Keep your minds easy, says I, mountin' a stump, `an' seize that Injun, or I'll have to put a ball into him before he gits off' for, ye see, I obsarved the black villain took fright, and was sneakin' away through the crowd.
"Well, well, don't go for to puzzle yer brains over it. That pictur' has nearly druv all the thinkin' men o' Cove mad, so we'll let it alone just now. Here's a man-o'-war, ye see; an' this is the steps for mountin' into the four-poster. It serves for a a some sort o' man, I forget Tot, you know " "An ottoman," said Tottie. "Ay, a ottyman by day, an' steps-an'-stairs at night. Look there!"
Not a word about Lyn. The stiff-necked devil! "You know what this is, don't you?" I said to Bat. "How the dickens did he manage it?" Bat's grin became even more expansive. "There ain't a buck trooper on the job," he replied, "that wouldn't help Mac if he got half a show; he's a white man. It's easy for a prisoner t' slip a note to a friend that happens t' be mountin' guard.
I reckon I owes ye my life since when ... when Gawd Almighty tuck my baby back ter thet garden er His'n in Paradise," answered the frail, weary-looking woman, whose eyes quickly suffused with tears. "Hit haint repayment I'm askin' of ye, but er favor, Mis' Andrews. I wants ye ter help me save ther life of another mountin flower, what's nigh faded plum erway." "Lou Amos?" asked the woman.
Shore, it's speshul sickly when as many as seven quits out together! "'Bein' timid an' ignorant I takes good advice. It's in the Oriental. Thar's that old gray cimmaron hibernatin' about the bar whose name is Jeffords. ""Be you-all conversant with that gun you packs?" asks Jeffords. "'I feels the hot blush mountin' in my tender cheeks, but I concedes I ain't.
I suffered beyond tellin' almost. The secont night of my arjuous labors on the meetin' house, he began wild and eloquent about wimmen bein' on Conferences, and mountin' rostrums. And sez he, "That is suthin' that we Methodist men can't stand."
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