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I dares to say, they are nat'ral and right, but to me there's no music so sweet as the sighing of the wind in the tree tops, and the rippling of a stream from a full, sparkling, natyve fountain of pure forest water unless, indeed," he continued, dropping his head for an instant in a thoughtful manner "unless indeed it be the open mouth of a sartain hound, when I'm on the track of a fat buck.
After pacing the quarter-deck a few minutes, when he quitted the forecastle as mentioned, Roswell Gardiner again went forward among the men. "You are quite sure that this high peak is the Horn, Stimson?" he observed, inquiringly. "Sartain of it, sir. There's no mistaking sich a place, which, once seen, is never forgotten."
I ain't standin' up for 'em, mind you, an' I can't remember that I ever heard anything particular to thar credit as a sex but po' things as we allow 'em to be, thar don't seem but one way to git along without 'em, an' that is to have 'em. It's sartain sure, however, that they fill a good deal mo' of yo' thought when they ain't around than when they are.
I'll point the end, and work a mouse on this pigtail of mine, and never part with it. I'll keep it for your own particular use, and for nobody else's; and as sartain as I come back, so sartain every time I come you shall have a taste of pigtail without chewing, my lady's ladies' maid."
It's a thousand pities, Mabel, your father wasn't born a general, as some of the English are who come among us; for I feel sartain he wouldn't leave a Frencher in the Canadas a week, could he have his own way with them." "Shall we have enemies to face in front?" asked Mabel, smiling, and for the first time feeling a slight apprehension about the dangers of the expedition.
They appeared to be father and son, and, as Harry learned afterward they were engaged in farming, "Any passengers for Colebrook?" inquired the driver of the old-fashioned Concord stage, which was drawn up beside the platform. "There's Obed and me," said the old farmer. "May I ride on the seat with you?" asked Harry of the driver. "Sartain. Where are you going?" "To Colebrook."
Plenty of Pottawattamie about dat lodge, sartain; and it very hard if don't get some on him scalp. You mean stop, and dig up cache; eh, Bourdon?" The cool, quiet manner in which Pigeonswing revealed his own plans, and inquired into those of his friend, had, at least, the effect to revive the confidence of le Bourdon.
"Past twelve, for sartain," said John; "and this bees a strange Irish place," continued he, in a drawling voice; "with no possible way o' getting at it, as I see." John, after a pause, resumed, "I say, Timothy, to the best of my opinion, this here road is leading on us into the sea."
"Miss DeWolf wants me to go to Chimney Rock immediately," said Edward, arresting the words on the lips of his garrulous visitor. "Sartain, I know'd it." "The Doctor will go with us, and I want you to go to Frink's stable and order the horses; we will be ready by the time you come round." "I'll dew it."
"Now open your ears, Crowsfeather; and you, Cloud; and all of you, young braves," commenced the bee-hunter, solemnly, and with a steadiness that was admirable; "yes, open wide your ears. The Great Spirit has given the red man a nose that he might smell does the Cloud smell more than common?" "Sartain smell whiskey this Whiskey Centre dey say nat'ral dat such smell be here."
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