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Well, I jest notioned it would be some cowardly ter shoot while I held the brute that way. Beside, I didn't want ter shatter the skull too much. Biggest rattler I've seen seven feet long if it's an inch, and worth preservin'. Say, those bees look like givin' us trouble. Best hustle through with breakfast, and then get along to the traps. The honey c'n wait.
I reckoned you'd rather have the cloth an' linen an' stuff than English hens or ducks an' sich farm truck, that wasn't just convenient ter bring along. I notioned ter bring you a couple of milch cows pretty as antelopes, they was but I couldn't manage 'em. Hosses is diff'rent. The brown mare with the white blaze up her face is fer Isa. Guess we may's well take her to the stable right now.
And he turned over and pointed with an agitated finger at a human skull and a heap of crumbled bones. "It's a man's skeleton. And you notioned as nobody 'd ever set foot in this forest before!" "Queer!" ejaculated Rube, standing up and contemplating the gruesome remnants of the skeleton. "Mortal queer it is. Can't make it out.
He had stolen from their community, which was unforgivable, but this this was something new to them, something which did not readily come into their focus. Wild Bill was the first to recover himself. "How d'you know?" he asked. "She wrote telling me." "She went 'cos she notioned it?" inquired Sandy. "He's stole her he's stole my Jessie," said Scipio sullenly. "An' you're goin' to fetch her back?"
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.
But Toby only grinned the harder, and for once, while the widower was preparing an adequate retort, contrived to forestall him. "Seems to me, Sunny, you ain't got a heap o' kick comin' to you," he said in his slow way. "I allow you come in this racket because you notioned it. Mebbe you'll say why you did it, else?"
''Tis the very exercise I need, says he. 'And it's a real kindness for ye to let me work a bit now and then, says he. But sure we kin see, 'tis the big heart of him, wishful to help the bye. But it's queer notioned he is fer a preacher." "Didn't I see you and Denny at church this evening?" asked the Doctor. "You did that, sir.
Guess you didn't intend anybody ter foller on your tracks, or you'd ha' left some signs around. How do, Rube?" He shook hands with the two trappers, and then turned to help in the work of cleaning and frying the fish for tea. "Gee!" he exclaimed, at sight of the afternoon's catch. "Never notioned thar was so many fish in the whole of your lake 's all that, Kiddie!
You know what a nervous old dear she is. I just thought if I rode out it might brighten her up. You see, she'd think the danger less, if a woman came to meet her." "Wal, I won't say you no, gal," Seth replied gravely. "Guess it ain't right. But ther' ain't a heap of danger. Y' see in them old days I most gener'ly let you do as you notioned," he finished up with a shadowy smile. "Dear old daddy!"
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