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"I can see no great difference," says Leather-Stocking, "atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, or givin' it up after a war, because we can't help it onless it be that the last is most manful and honorable."
"You'd have ben a smart coon to have done the contrary, I guess, mister, anyhow," said the American drily. "Sure, an' it's the sole of me fut I mane, sorr," explained the first- mate in Hibernian fashion. "Jest so," said Mr Lathrope, laughing at the blunder; "and it would puzzle you to walk different, I kalkerlate, that is onless you tried the sole of your head!"
Zebenezer Langdon is not agwine to be able to s'arch here for de meat onless he has some more light Ki! dat coal am warm!" he exclaimed, as he hopped off from the fiery end of a fagot. It required but a few moments to gather sufficient fuel to replenish the fire.
Then though it's night, thar would be no chance fur a feller to miss, onless he shet his eyes, an' we want all our bullets to hit. Indians, even the bravest, don't like to rush riflemen that are ez good ez a batt'ry. Ef we strike 'em mighty hard the first time they'll fall back on tricks an' waitin'." "Good sound reasoning, Tom. You hear, Will. Be sure you don't miss." "I won't," replied the lad.
"I suppose in a few years more there will be a regular road here, just as there now is from Fort Pitt eastward." "Like as not, lad, onless the redskins upset everything again." "They have been very quiet lately." "Yes, Dave, but thet may be the calm afore a storm, as sailor men call it. I don't believe in trustin' a quiet Injun."
When at length she looked out instead of down she could see nothing but a mass of green foliage crossed by tree trunks and branches of brown and gray. Then the vehicle bowled under dark cool shade, into a tunnel with mossy wet cliff on one side, and close-standing trees on the other. "Reckon we're all right now, onless we meet somebody comin' up," declared the driver. Carley relaxed.
He spoke with the vilest, boggiest kind of brogue, and the hideous accent of vulgar Ulster; calling who "hu" with a French u, should "shoed," and pronouncing every word beginning with un as if beginning with on ontil, onless, ondhersthand, ondhertake. "Ye'll excuse me makin' a spache, fur av I did I'd make a varry bad one," said the holy man, and the audience seemed to believe him.
"But Sut Simpson don't give up the job just yet," said he, the next morning, in discussing the situation with Barnwell and the leading pioneers. "That younker has got himself in a scrape, through no fault of his own, and onless he gets a lift there's no show for his pullin' out of it." "Mickey O'Rooney is still absent, and he may be able to help you." But Sut shook his head.
There's neither high nor low, nor broad nor deep, nor betwixt nor between wid her, an' that's what I like. But mark you, she's no manner av Church for a wake man, bekaze she takes the body and the soul av him, onless he has his proper work to do.
They passed two or three orchards of apple and peach trees, and they saw other indications of cultivation like that of the white farmer. "It ain't a bad-lookin' town," said Long Jim Hart. "But it'll look wuss," said Shif'less Sol, "onless they've laid an ambush somewhar.
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