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"If the Serpent and myself could swim into the river and bring off the other canoe," the young sailor replied, "it would seem to me that our safest course would be the water." "If, indeed! and yet it might easily be done, as soon as it is a little darker. Well, well, I am not sartain it will not be the best.
The hunters have told me of its expl'ites, and by all I have heard, I should set it down as sartain death in exper'enced hands. Hearken to the tick of this lock-a wolf trap has'n't a livelier spring; pan and cock speak together, like two singing masters undertaking a psalm in meetin'. I never did see so true a bore, Hurry, that's sartain!"
"Are you no' weel the night?" she asked. "Sartain. I never was sick in my life." "And how are they all down-by?" meaning at Mr Snow's house, by "down-by." "Well, pretty much so. Only just middling. Nothing to brag of, in the way of smartness." There was a long silence after that. Mr Snow sat with folded arms, looking out on the scene before them.
"Good gracious!" exclaimed Uncle Nathan, for we presume it is unnecessary to tell the reader that it was he, "I know that." "Indeed, then you have some knowledge of him?" "Sartain! but do you know a minister in these parts by the name of Faxon?" "I do; he lives close by."
Come, Natty, let us stake the last penny for the bird; with your aim, it cannot fail to be successful. I would rather it should be John, lad; my heart jumps into my mouth, because you set your mind so much out; and Im sartain that I shall miss the bird. Them Indians can shoot one time as well as another; nothing ever troubles them.
There may not be any cowardyce in overcoming a deer, but sartain it is, there's no great valor." "The Delawares themselves are no heroes," muttered Hurry through his teeth, the mouth being too full to permit it to be fairly opened, "or they would never have allowed them loping vagabonds, the Mingos, to make them women."
"I'll tell you why," replied Anderson. "A lieutenant takes care what he is about. He is an officer, and has something to lose; but a midshipman has nothing to lose, and therefore he cares about nothing. You can't break a midshipman, as the saying is, unless you break his neck. And they have necks which aren't easily broken, that's sartain."
They was a-making tracks along hereaway, sartain, sure; larruping them hosses to a keen jump, lickity-split. Now, says I to myself, what's the tarnation hurry? Ain't they got all the time there is to get where they're a-going, immejitly, if not sooner?" Then he turned upon me.
I suppose the Lord made us all of this disposition, for it's sartain we all manifest it. Come, bear a hand Neb, on that fore-yard, and let us see the length of the stun-sail boom."
"It looks what it is, Dinah" and, after a moment's consideration, I drew it from my finger. "If I give you this, will you promise to deliver my message to McDermot faithfully?" "Sartain sure, honey, but tell me again wat it is; I forgits de small patticklers." "Get me my pencil and a scrap of paper, and let me write it down for him to read; or no, this might involve observation, detection.
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