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I say it ain't a lovely morning, not by no manner o' means, and what I says I ain't ashamed on, being a nat'rally truthful man!" With which words he sighed, kicked the fire again, and stumped out. "Our friend would seem somewhat gloomy this morning," said I. "He've been that way a fortnight now, come Satu'day," replied the slim lass, nodding. "Oh?" said I.
I didn't give him permission to hunt deserters, but THIEVES. I didn't help him to ketch the man that deserted from HIM, but the skunk that took MY clothes. For when the Leftenant found the man's old uniform in the bush, he nat'rally kalkilated he must hev got some other duds near by in some underhand way. Don't you see? eh? Why, look, Mag. Darned if you ain't skeered after all!
"Don't you make no fight?" he asked. "Fight?" said Billy, wondering. "Fight? Co'se not. Hank don't plunder me none. He jest ambles along an' helps himself, and leaves th' dust fer it every time. I jest lays low an' lets him operate. I never has no dealin's with him, understand. He jest nat'rally waltzes in an' plants his grub-hooks on what he needs. I don't know nothin' about it. I'm dead asleep."
That darky was plainly in a state of flunk, his legs trembling, and the whites of his eyes much in evidence. "Oh, Lor', Massa Craig," he whined. "Ah ain't done nuthin', deed Ah ain't, sah!" "You locked up the girl." "Ah just had to, sah. Captain Henley he just nat'rally skin me alive, sah, if Ah don't. But Ah nebber hurt her none." "Where is she?" "In number five, sah; here here am de key."
This brings up a confabulation regarding the certain fair young person; when Noddy he gives it as his opinion that she is a deary creetur. "She may be a leetle spoilt, and nat'rally spoilt," he says, "by circumstances, but that's only the surface, and I lay my life," he says, "that she's the true golden gold at heart." 'So did you, said Mr Boffin.
I wouldna wonder but what I was lossin' my place some o' thae days, an' syne whaur would ye be? Marget Lownie, he goes on, ''am nat'rally lazy an' fond o' the drink. As sure as ye stand there, 'am a reglar deevil!" "Juist so, but he didna manage 't, for Mag says, 'We a' ha'e oor faults, Gavin, an' deevil or no deevil, ye're the man for me!
"Poor fellow you could only know this by report, however. And what was done with you?" "I suppose, if the truth were known, my father was somewhere about that yard; and little do I envy the old gentleman his feelings, if he reflected much, over matters and things. I was sent to the Alms-House, however; stone-cutters being nat'rally hard-hearted, I suppose.
But them Sioux are such awful liars nat'rally that they couldn't understand the signs of truth, even if they saw them. `Whitefaced coward, says he to me, `tell me in what direction your people are. At this I made believe not to understand; but the big chap flourished his knife before my face, called me a dog, and told me to point out the direction.
Nat'rally that yell startled me an' Spike sum, bein' that we both had been sound asleep; an', maybe, for a minute we sot a-lookin' intew each other's eyes, doin' nuthin'. Then Spike says: 'Sounded human, Bill. Like sumone had got his, an' I seed that he was a-shiverin'; for 'tain't none pleasant tew be waked out of a sound sleep by th' death-cry of a human.
Kearney, if you happen to know where he is, understand that we are going back to Devil's Ford." "Cert'nly nat'rally," said Dick, waving his hand gracefully; "sorter drop him a line, saying that bizness of a social and delicate nature being the escort of Miss Christie and Jessie Carr to Devil's Ford prevents my having the pleasure of calling." "That will do very well, Mr.
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