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Updated: June 26, 2025
I swear I didn't mean to do no harm to you." "Wall, ye acted monty quare fur a man that didn't mean no harm," said the pursued man, regaining his breath with some difficulty. "A-chasin' me down with thet ar prod on yer gun, an' a-threatenin' to stick hit inter me at every jump. Only wanted ter see me run, did yer?" "O, mister, I only done it because I wuz ordered to.
Our captain wouldn't let us crowd in, fer he said he wasn't welcome an' we wasn't needed. "That was ontel we struck the big Crow trail, with you all a follerin' o' hit blind, a-chasin' trouble as hard as ye could. Then he sont me on ahead to warn ye an' to ask ef we should jine on. We knowed the Crows was down atter the train.
"And your idee of an honor, is it," he sneered, "is that I'm goin' to put that dingbusset with a leather back-fin onto my head and grab up them two leather swill-pails and stick that iron thing there under my arm and grab that puckering-string bag in my teeth and start tophet-te-larrup over this town a-chasin' fires? Say " but his voice choked, and he began to read once more the pamphlet.
The friend twisted his head and made a calm reply. "If they keep on a-chasin' us they'll drive us all inteh th' river." The youth cried out savagely at this statement. He crouched behind a little tree, with his eyes burning hatefully and his teeth set in a curlike snarl. The awkward bandage was still about his head, and upon it, over his wound, there was a spot of dry blood.
No; she is a woman who stalks on towards goles and don't mind who or what she upsets on her way. She is a woman who a-chasin' sinners slams the door in the faces of saints. A remarkable instance of this memory onrolled on her panorama a eppisode that took place in our own Jonesville meetin'-house.
"For her pop was a-chasin' us, and kept it up for twenty miles after the parson said 'Amen." "Did he ketch you?" asked Fresno, with great seriousness. "He sure did," answered Allen, with a twinkle in his eye, "an' thanked me for takin' Josephine off his hands." The boys laughed. The joke was upon themselves, as they had expected to hear a romantic story of earlier days.
Better waltz in while you got a chance. Why, there was Emmy, a tidy bit of flesh as women go, and we took to each other on the jump. But I kept a-chasin' pockets and chasin' pockets, and delayin'. And then a big black lumberman, a Kanuck, began sidlin' up to her, and I made up my mind to speak only I went off after one more pocket, just one more, and when I got back she was Mrs. Somebody Else.
She'd been a-jerkin' an' a-rollin' an' a-foamin' et the mouth wussen a mad dog, tell she wuz clean tuckahed out, an' thah she lay in the straw 'roun' the altah, her pink caliker dusty an' tore lak she'd been a-chasin' through a briah patch, straws stickin' out all ovah her haid.
"What then do you think it is, Ike?" said the doctor, to whom Ike had been confiding this opinion. "It's frettin'; frettin' after the trail and the Lost River. For thirteen years he's chased that river, and he'll die a-chasin' it." "Well, he'll certainly die if he starts after it in his present condition." "Maybe so, doctor. I wouldn't interdict any opinion of yours.
An officer left the group and returned with what Captain Swarth knew was a chart, which a few of them studied, while their captain hailed again: "See anything more of that pirate brig the other day?" "What! a pirate? Be 'e a pirate?" answered Captain Swarth, in agitated tones. "Be that you a-chasin' of 'im? Nao, hi seed nothink of 'im arter the fog shut 'im out."
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