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Then, afteh waitin' tell they saw thet the Injuns hed skulked up nearly to the door, they crawled through the gap in the floor, an' then frum undeh the house into the gairden, an' then to the cawnfiel', an' stole through it to the woods on t'otheh side. Then they run fur ther lives, expectin' ev'ry minit to be attacked. It wuz a meracle they eveh reached the fort alive. Pore Mrs.
Oh, he's over in the Courier office, consultin' with Haggard an' Jeff-Jack." "Do you know whether Gen'l Halliday's in town, sir?" The Captain smiled. "He's in the next room, seh. He's been undeh my p'otection, as you might say, since daylight." "Gen'l Halliday could stop all this, Captain." "Stop it? He could stop it in two hours, seh!
"No wondeh," exclaimed Rogers, "thet you found me an' ev'ry otheh able-bodied man uv us should'rin' our guns an' gittin' knives an' tommyhocks ready! You see, Abner, the Injuns undeh ther white leadahs wuz thet year mekin' a stubbo'ner an' bettah planned warfare than eveh befoh.
Las spling me hiyu sclub, hiyu wash, hiyu sweep undeh bed. All light now." "All right for man; no good for woman," Casey explained. "Two lady come stop, Feng." "Ho!" said Feng, adjusting his mind to a new situation. "You and Tom mally him?" "No," Casey responded. "One married already. Ladies all same my friends, Feng." "No good." Feng announced with certainty. "Woman fliend no good.
"I jus' wondeh how you all stand up undeh such 'flictions. Seems to me a motheh done wilt down, but they don't. Mothehs is the bravest things they is," Bo Peep declared with a broad grin of admiration. "Oh, we get schooled to it. Asher's mother waited through six years while he was in army service; and remember how long I waited in Virginia for him to come back to me!
Zachariah, ever ready to seize an opportunity to raise his voice, either in expostulation or agreement, took this as a generous opening. He exclaimed with commendable feeling: "Yas, suh! Undeh no suckemstances! No, suh!" "It is not even to be thought of," declared his master, frowning heavily. "No, suh! We can't even think about it, Marse Kenneth," said Zachariah, a trifle less decisively.
Boone, fust in command, took the left wing; Todd, the centah; Trigg, the right; an' the Lincoln County men undeh Harlan, McBride an' McGary a sort o' advance guard. But 'twuz no use then. We only fired one round. Befoh we could reload, them devils wuz on us with tommyhocks an' scalpin'-knives. Then, a hand-to-hand fight fur a minit.
Miss Harper was "really ill," said the surgeon, but for whose coming with us we should hardly have brought our whole number through alive. Both Ferry and Charlotte were in a critical condition. "Take you in!" said our tearfully smiling Mrs. Wall; "why, we'd take yo' whole crowd in ef we had to go out and bunk undeh the trees owse'v's!... Oh, Mr.
"Why, he bulge in heah an' say we done send a call, an' we tell him we don' know nuffin' 'bout no call, an' he sweah an' carry on, an' aftuh you done gone in he ast whut is yo' name, an' somebody tell him an' he go away. An' then 'bout haffanour aftuhwuds he come back with that theah lettuh say to stick it undeh yo' do, ef yo' ain't home. Leastways he look to me lak th' same boy.
We all ov us helped fer ter put 'em in de wagon, hid undeh a lot o' truck, an' den Sikes he done drove 'em out thro' de bluffs. Ah done walked wif de gal, an' she tol' mor' 'bout herself, an' whar she cum frum; an' dat wus her name, sah." "Her name? What name?" "Rene Beaucaire; de quadroon woman, she wus her mother."
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