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He was not much hurt, but terribly frightened. Some one asked him how high he had gone up. "Dun no, massa, but t'ink 'bout t'ree mile," was his reply. General Logan commanded at this point and took this colored man to his quarters, where he did service to the end of the siege.
"Two t'ree hundreds all Shawnees like to git Oonomoo's scalp nebber git him Oonomee die in his lodge scalp on his head," said the Huron, proudly. "I hopes so; hopes I will, too." The expression of the Indian's face was changed. It assumed a dark, earnest appearance. He was done trifling, and wished to commence business. "See her dis mornin'?" he asked, in short, quick tones.
"Ninety-six pounds, thirteen shillings, seven pence 't'ree fart'in's' was the footing of the whole bill," answered Dirck deliberately, preparing to light his pipe; for he could smoke very conveniently while trotting no faster than at the rate of six miles the hour.
"You 'member story I tol' you wan day, two, t'ree mont' ago," Poleon remarked, with apparent evasion, "'bout Johnny Platt w'at I ketch on de Porcupine all et up by skeeter-bugs?" "I do," answered Gale. "Wal," he met their eyes squarely, then drew another long breath from his cigarette "I'm jus' hopin' nobody don' pick it up dis Runnion feller de same way.
A shirt-sleeved man, all covered with mustache and calm, sat by the table, and he kept right on sitting as he inquired: "Vell?" "My car my automobile has been stuck in the mud. A bad driver, I'm afraid! I wonder if you would be so good as to " "I usually get t'ree dollars, but I dunno as I vant to do it for less than four. Today I ain'd feelin' very goot," grumbled the golden-hearted.
Dey didn't take any ob de niggers, 'cause dey had killed 'em all but me, and I was already dead, but I comed to agin." "None of Captain Prescott's family were in the house besides Mary, were they?" asked the Lieutenant, asking a question of which he well knew the answer. "Nobody else wan't dar bress de Lord! Missis Prescott and Helen went off on a visit to de settlement, t'ree, four days ago."
"They were not so near the royal forces, certainly, when I left Albany, sir," returned the colonel. "A few direct questions to the Indian, however, would bring out the whole truth." "We must proceed more methodically. How many Yankees were in this fight, Nick? Calculate as we used to, in the French war." "Reach from here to mill t'ree, two deep, cap'in. All farmer; no sodger.
"Yas, bot if you no lak I leek heem, ust you yoomp in und I lat heem run goot for two, t'ree mile. Dot feex heem all right." "I don't know about that. Sure you can hold him?" "Yas, I hol' heem so goot he break hee's yaw off, if he don't stop ven I tol' heem. Now, quvick. Whoa! Yoomp in."
"Sometimes I put in six or eight hours a day," replied the visitor. "De rush hours on de surface line are usually good for two or t'ree hours a day, but I been layin' off dat stuff lately and goin' in fer de t'ater crowd. Dere's more money and shorter hours." "You confine yourself," asked Jimmy, "to er ah pocket-picking solely?" Again the lip smile.
"Then," he cried triumphantly, "wit' ten t'ousand dollairs I can buy over t'ree t'ousand guns!" The gunman's look was patient. "Don't you want to shoot 'em off?" he inquired. "Because if you do you'll need ammunition. You ought to have a thousand rounds, which will come to a little over three times the actual cost of the guns themselves.
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