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I'm goin' noo for a fresh pail of watter," he remarked, pausing at the door, "but as a wee item of information: yander's th' wheestle rope; and a mon wheestles one short and one long for th' boat." He disappeared. Thorpe seized the cord and gave the signal. Then he ran hastily to the end of the long lumber docks, and peered with great eagerness in the direction of the black smoke.
Thur wur a sight o' mountainy men thur, at the time, that wa'n't the fellurs to see this child put down on the parairar for nuthin'. Yander's the critter!" and Rube pointed to the old mare. "The rifle I gin to Bill, an' kep Tar-guts instead, seeing she wur a better gun." "So you got square with the Rapahoes?" "That, young fellur, justs rests on what 'ee 'ud call squar.
"Yander's that youngster Beverley," he exclaimed. "Ef it ain't I'm a squaw!" Nor did he parley further on the subject; but set off at a rickety trot to meet and assist the fagged and excited young man. Clark had given Oncle Jazon his flask, which contained a few gills of whisky. This was the first thing offered to Beverley; who wisely took but a swallow.
Thorne, that he done it out of mischieviousness, as boys will do, you know, jest as they steal a feller's apples, and knock his turkeys of'n the roost, but yander's not one of them kind; so he must 'a' been crazy, and I'm rael sorry he's been so bad put to about it, I am, indeed."
"Yander's more of 'em," said Oncle Jazon, as if not in the least concerned, wagging his head in an opposite direction, from which another squad was approaching. That he duly appreciated the situation appeared only in the celerity with which he acted. Kenton at once assumed command, and his companions felt his perfect fitness.
Blakely, her arms befloured, her hands in the dough, had observed him at the gate, while she stood at the biscuit-block in the shed-room, and although pining to rush forth and ask the latest news from the settlement and the comet, she only called out in a husky undertone: "'Dosia, 'Dosia, yander's Justus a-kemin' in the gate! Put on yer white apern, chile."
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