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After the Indians had skedaddled for the woods, and we cut the cords that bound pa, the cannibals went to work and skun the dogs, and began to cook them, and pa looked on, until it made him squirmish, but he was so tickled at being saved from the Indians, that he tried to be a good fellow with the cannibals.
"The world," said the old man quaintly, "is full of folks who have got a big pocket-book an' a bac'n pedigree." "Do you know who this money belongs to?" he asked the outlaw. "Every dollar of it," said Jack Bracken. "It come from railroads, banks and express companies. I didn't feel squirmish about takin' it, for all o' them are robbers.
"COMPANY Q's bin detailed to go out 'n' help guard a forage train to-morrow," said the Orderly one evening at roll-call. "You fellers wants to all be up 'n' dressed bright 'n' early, with yer cartridge-boxes full 'n' a day's rations in yer haversacks. Be sure yer guns is in good order, fer likely's not we'll have a squirmish afore we git back."
"But I can't believe he's guilty," said Eli. "But don't you allow," said Mr. Eldridge, "that eleven men are more sure to hit it right than one man?" "Yes," said Eli, reluctantly, "as a general thing." "Well, there's always got to be some give to a jury, just as in everything else, and you ought to lay right down on the rest of us. It isn't as if we were at all squirmish.
Doc was silent for a time, as if he were pondering the matter. "Yo' all shore come a-lookin' for b'ar," he opined, taking the glass which Trask thrust out at him. "But yo' all don't need to be squirmish about Mr. Peth. If he goes to act up, I'll settle his hash." "How's that?" Doc chuckled again. "I know how to handle that low-down trash," he whispered, tragically. "I'd drap somethin' in his tea.
"It is this accursed spot again!" muttered Norton; "twice lately I could have sworn I heard breathing among the bushes. I've beaten every inch of ground, and not a living creature have I found. I'm not squirmish, and a rebel now and then don't count, but well, you know I brought that parson's cub down a bit further back.
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