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Them's mostly Pennsylvania men with you, an' they don't know a thing 'bout that thar region. Like as not you'll be walkin' right straight into an ambush, an' that'll be the end of you an' them Pennsylvanians." "You're a cheerful prophet, Red Blaze." "I meant if you didn't take care of yourselves an' keep a good lookout, which I know, of course, that you're goin' to do.
Custom had made him exceedingly cautious, for it was the delight of the men to play tricks upon him, usually of an exceedingly painful nature. The searcher is no man's friend. When putting on his dry clothes, Harry heard Joe Rogers, the foreman, saying: 'D'yer know them's Harry Hardy's togs yer pawin', Brother Tinribs?
"I think we'd better turn here," he said, unconsciously assuming his natural position of leader. "It's not worth while to run ourselves to death. What we've got to do is to hide." "Them's blessed words!" gasped Shif'less Sol. "I wuz never so tired in all my born days. Seems to me I've been chased by Shawnees all over this here continent of North Ameriky!"
One early morning they were in their canoes, deep between the high banks, down toward the mouth of the river where it united with the Madison, when they heard a dull tramping in the valley. "Harkee!" spoke John. "D'ye hear, Jack? That sounds like Injuns. "Injuns nothin'!" John Potts laughed. "Them's buff'ler.
"I suppose, sir," observed Jupp inquiringly, picking up all the eatables and putting them together apart on the seat next the little man "I suppose as how them's your provisions for the journey?" "Ess. I ate dindin; an', dat's tea." "Indeed, sir! and very nice things for tea too," said Jupp, beaming with admiration and good-humoured fun.
"'Them's the guilty parties, as the actor folks say," sung out Bow Backus. "I think you are right," agreed Mr. Pertell. "But I can't see what object cowboys would have in taking a film and an undeveloped one at that," said Russ. "I can't believe it." "Maybe the International firm bribed them, or maybe one of their men was disguised as a cowboy," suggested Mr. DeVere.
You ain't been running." "You're saying this to keep me up, Peter." "I ain't, sir; I ain't. Look! Look! You can see for yourself now. There, them's the big trees where all the helephants sheltered at the review, and brave old Rajah! He's making for it straight. There's a peep of the river too, and you can see the hut above the landing-place where I kept guard that night and listened to the crocs.
One of them's roasting a piece of meat, another fish, on a skewer, and the others bring out their frozen bread and thaw it soft and fresh as if it had just come out of the oven. And I do the same, toasting a piece of meat and thawing some bread, and put one on the other and cut up your part with my knife, to neat little bits all ready. "And the men are all so interested they forget to eat.
He said that nations needed great thoughts as well as they needed great inventions them's his words not mine and often rich men subsidized a poor inventor or a poor scientist so's they could have time to make their inventions and not have to worry over their daily bread; so why shouldn't it be done for the poets who would then have time to give great thoughts to the people, thoughts that would inspire them to noble deeds and works.
Many's the time Annie's said to me: 'Mark my words, Albert, I wouldn't wonder if the police was to come after her one of these days. Just like that. But she's a stunner to look at, ain't she?" "She's some peach," allowed Tuppence carelessly. "Finds it useful in her lay-out, you bet. Has she been wearing any of the emeralds, by the way?" "Emeralds? Them's the green stones, isn't they?"
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