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It was with genuine simplicity that he once bewailed the fact that it had been "an awfully dull half no one had been killed for miles around." It was he, too, on the occasion of a terrible tragedy in the High Street, when Teague the baker had been killed by the lashing hoofs of his new horse, who had rushed out to superintend the removal of the body.
Riding to higher ground I kept close watch on the few open patches up on the slope. The chase led toward us for a while. Suddenly I saw a big bear with a frosted coat go lumbering across one of these openings. "Silvertip! Silvertip!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. "I saw him!" My call thrilled everybody. Vern spurred his horse and took to the right. Teague advised that we climb the slope.
When he was not laughing, he was ready to laugh. He seated himself, looked around at the company, and smiled. "It's a long pull betwixt this an' Atlanty," he said after a while; "it is that, certain an' shore, an' I hain't smelt of the jug sence I lef ther'. Pull 'er out, Teague, pull 'er out." The jug was forthcoming.
Sis exclaimed in a horrified tone, "I slapped that letter out of Mr. Woodward's hand!" Teague laughed exultantly. "What'd he say?" "He didn't say anything. He looked like he expected the floor to open and swallow him. I never was so ashamed in my life. I've cried about it a thousand times." "Why, honey, I wouldn't take an' cry 'bout it ef I wuz you." "Yes you would, pap, if if you were me.
"And now, young sir, who seem as witty as you are good looking, you may, if you will, tell us your name and your business. As for the name, however, if you wish to keep it to yourself, Ranald Sigtrygsson is not the man to demand it of an honest guest." Hereward looked round and saw Teague MacMurrough standing close to him, harp in hand.
We rode until late, and came at last to a park where sheep had been run. I refused to camp here, and Teague, in high dudgeon, rode on. As it turned out I was both wise and lucky, for we rode into a park with many branches, where there was good water and fair grass and a pretty grove of white pines in which to pitch our tents. I enjoyed this camp, and had a fine rest at night.
How dare you do such a thing!" she exclaimed passionately. "I will never forgive you as long as I live never!" "Why, honey " But she was gone, and neither Teague nor her mother could get a word of explanation from her. Teague coaxed, and wheedled, and threatened, and Puss cried and quarrelled; but Sis was obdurate. She shut herself in her room and remained there. Woodward was thoroughly miserable.
It would never have occurred to him to leave all the conveniences and comforts of life to go and dwell in a shanty, so as to prove to himself that he could live like a savage, or like his friends "Teague and his jade," as he called the man and brother and sister, more commonly known nowadays as Pat, or Patrick, and his old woman.
Cohen was a droll customer, the revenue officers thought, and the longer they chatted with him the droller he became. First and last they drew from him what they considered to be some very important information. But most important of all was the report of the arrest of Teague Poteet. The deputies congratulated themselves.
In the same level, two men John Paul and Andrew Teague hearing the rush of the advancing torrent above their head, made for a shaft, went up it against a heavy fall of water, and escaped.
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