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Never mind, bubby, 'twar tore afore. But it'll do ter wrop up this money-purse what b'longs ter yer dad. He lef' it hid in the chinking o' the wall over yander close ter whar I war sittin' when I fust kem in. I'll put it back thar, 'kase yer dad don't want nobody ter know whar it air hid." He strode across the room and concealed the empty pocket-book in the chinking.
Mayfield was delighted to find upon going out to the gate that they were to be drawn by two enormous oxen. But Margaret objected. "Thar air two hosses out yander at the stable, and it is jest one of Jasper's pranks to take these steers," she said. "And I jest know he's a doin' it to humiliate me." The old man, pretending to fix the yoke, ducked his head to hide his grinning countenance.
Ben 'lows ez I talk six ways fur Sunday." "Ye dunno how I feel, not knowin' how ye be set towards me, an' hevin' ter see ye so seldom, a-workin' all the time down yander, a-moonshinin'" "I wouldn't talk 'bout it so turr'ble loud." She glanced apprehensively over her shoulder. "An' ye'd better quit it, ennyhows."
He was too far away to distinguish the battlements of Ticonderoga, but he happened to be looking in that direction when Bolderwood presented himself. "Neighbor!" said the latter, in a most friendly tone, "ye look hearty. What's the news?" "Humph!" grunted the old man, staring at the Yankee shrewdly, "you're the feller that's been clearin' land above us yander, ain't ye?"
"Where? where?" was hurriedly uttered by several voices, while all pressed forward to the guide. "Yander!" replied Ike, pointing to a thicket of young beeches. "He's tuk to the brush: ride round, fellers. Mark, boy, round! quick, damn you!" There was a scramble of horsemen, with excited, anxious looks and gestures.
"Av coorse, men will be men," said the constable, as he turned his horse's head, "but I thought I'd mention it. O'Briar is a dacent man, and he's one of yer mates. Av coorse. There's a bad lot in that camp in the scrub over yander, and av coorse. Good-day to ye, byes." Next night we heard the voice in O'Briar's tent again, and decided to speak to Alf in a friendly way about it in the morning.
Bimeby she got so bad de w'ite folks sont her ober ter young Mis' Ma'g'ret's fer ter gib her a change; but she runned erway de fus' night, en w'en dey looked fer 'er nex' mawnin', dey foun' her co'pse layin' in de branch yander, right 'cross fum whar we 're settin' now.
"Have you seen any of them lately?" inquired Boone, coming to Sneak's post and running his eye along the horizon through the loophole. "Not a one," replied Sneak, "except that feller laying out yander by the snowball." "He's dead," said Boone, "and he is the only one that we are sure of having killed to-night. But many are wounded."
We'll hev to go three mile or tharabout; but we'll git back by the time 'ee hev filled yur gourds, an' got yur traps ready for skeetin'." "Very well! take the arrows." "Four's gobs for us," said Rube, taking that number from the quiver. "Keep the rest. 'Ee'll want more wolf-meat afore we start. Thur's not a tail o' anythin' else till we git clur roun' the mountain yander.
"I asked you to let me ride, if you please. I had to kill my po' mare 'way back yander broke her leg in a bridge." "What sort of a mare?" "Gray one of the best old nags I ever saw." "Well, where air you goin'?" "To Nashville. Will you let me ride?" "Got business down there, I take it." "Yes, or I wouldn't want to go." "I don't know about that.
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