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"Now, by the good God A'mighty, 'pears to me we got the skeer shifted so the red man'll be the rabbit fer a while an' I wouldn't wonder," said Solomon, as he stood looking down at the scene. "He ain't a-goin' to like the look o' a pale face not overly much. Them Injuns that got erway 'll never stop runnin' till they've reached the middle o' next week."
I peeped as I passed when Myers took the helm, and I wanted to see what all the fun was about; then I said to myself, 'I will give her a skeer for that if I have a chance' but, all the same, the chill you feel is a real one, for as sure as death that lump of darkness is an iceberg. I have told you no yarn, as you will find out to-morrow when you ask the captain.
After managin' to withstand the women o' foreign lands for a' thae years, he gaed fair skeer aboot this stocky at Tilliedrum. She's juist seventeen years auld, an' the auld fule sits wi' his airm round her in Eppie's hoose, though they've been mairit this fortnicht." "The doited fule," said Jess.
"I didn't s'pose bein' sent up was goin' to skeer all the spirit out of you." "It didn't, Nan, but it's been the puttin' of a new kind of spirit into me. I've been converted, Nan." "What?" gasped Mrs. Kimper. "Thunder!" exclaimed Tom, after a hard laugh. "You goin' to be a shoutin' Methodist? Won't that be bully to tell the fellers in the village?"
"Yes, sah," replied Solon; "but him huntin' too loud. We ain't gettin' to de place yet, an' ef he don' quit he barkin', him skeer off all de 'coon in de State." So Bim was called in, and restrained with a bit of rope until a corn-field was reached that Solon pronounced the right kind of a place from which to make a start.
We'll make 'em give battle, stop 'em for a while, and then, when the flankers swim the stream we'll be gone. We will not let ourselves be seen, and they may think it a large force, retiring merely because their own army is larger." "That is, we've got to give 'em a skeer," said Long Jim. "Exactly. We want to make those Indians think that Manitou is against 'em.
To his surprise, she gave a faint cry, turned quickly towards him, and then shrank back and lapsed quite helpless against the tree. Her evident distress overcame his bashfulness. He ran towards her. "I'm sorry I frighted ye, ma'am, but I was afraid I might skeer ye more if I lay low, and said nothin'."
I quite agrees with ye; but women are allus a bit worrity-like, and of course there's a deal to do, and she got frightened with the keys, and when she saw them fine clothes, and what not, so I drawed her a glass of cherry-cordial, an' sez I, 'Now, old 'ooman, sez I, 'don't skeer yerself into fits. I'll fetch the passon to ye. And with that, she seemed easier in her mind.
"The folks in the mountings air mighty nigh skeered out'n thar boots by yer foolishness, Brent" she sought to conserve a mien of reproof. "They 'low ez it war a manifestation of the Evil One." Brent laughed delightedly. "Warn't it prime?" he said. "But I never expected ter work sech a scatteration of the crowd Thar skeer plumb terrified me.
"An' es fer comin' back," Jerry continued blandly, "some day you're ergoin' ter invite me back. Anyhow, I reckon I'd come, because thar's somethin' hyar thet'll kinderly pulls me hither stronger then guns kin skeer me off." The girl sat there on her doorstep with her rifle across her knees and halfway to the fence-line Jerry paused and looked back.
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