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"It's purty big out thar, an' looks ez if you couldn't tamper with it this here river stands no foolin' but do you know, Paul, water's pow'ful friendly. It's always travelin' about, always on the move.
"Atter he got thu, den he santer 'long, he did, fur ter hunt up de Woodpecker; an' by'mby he hyeard him peckin' at er log; an' he went up ter him kin' er kyeerless, an' he sez, 'Good-mornin', sezee; 'yer pow'ful busy ter day.
When the service was over, and the congregation crowded around him, Sister Mary Strutt, on the outer fringe of the assembly, confided to Sister Evans that she had "hearn tell how that when he was over at Soquel he prayed that pow'ful that all the wimmen got fits and tremblin' spells, and ole Mrs.
"Well, you need to be," said Petty, "'cause the pass through which we're goin' is at least fifteen hundred feet above Townsville that's our village an' I reckon it's just 'bout as high over Hubbard. Them fifteen hundred feet make a pow'ful difference in climate, as you'll soon find out. It's not only colder thar, but the winds are always blowin' hard through the pass. Jest look back at Townsville.
It consisted of forty acres of flinty land on the mountain side "too po' to sprout cow-peas," as his old wife would always add "but hits pow'ful for blackberries, an' if we can just live till blackberry time comes we can take keer ourselves." Mrs. Watts had not a lazy bone in her body.
Nobody wuz on board, but she wuz tied to the boat next to her. I slipped on her it was pow'ful dark then an' the Spaniards wuz keepin' a slip-shod watch, anyhow cut the rope an' floated her down the stream, where I've tied her up under sech thick brush that nobody 'cept ourselves is likely to find her. She'll be thar, waitin' fur us, an' don't you doubt it.
Indeed, the wood-pile of Daddy Downey was a standing reproof to the indolent and sluggish miner. "Ole Daddy must use up a pow'ful sight of wood; every time I've passed by his shanty he's been makin' the chips fly. But what gets me is, that the pile don't seem to come down," said Whisky Dick to his neighbor.
The negro remained standing gloomily but respectfully by the window. "Cato, do you know anything of Mr. Dumont Miss Dows' cousin?" The negro's white teeth suddenly flashed in the lamplight. "Ya! ha! I reckon, sah." "Then he's a great friend of your people?" "I don't know about dat, sah. But he's a pow'ful enemy of de Reeds and de Higbees!" "On account of his views, of course?"
"You an' ole miss been mighty good fren's fur a pow'ful long time, an' now don' you go gittin' yourse'f in no fraction wid her, jus' as you' bout to die." "Ain't gwine to die," said the old woman, "till I done tole her wot's on my min'."
Them that starts a war mebbe don't do much thinkin', but them that fights it hev to do a power uv it." "Your logic is sound, Mr. Reed." "I hev a pow'ful good eye, colonel, an' I think I see a man on top uv that high ridge to the right. But my eye ain't ez good ez your glasses, an' would you min' takin' a look through 'em? Foller a line from that little bunch of cedars to the crest."
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