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"Here's what that cut in his arm means," shouted a miner who had struck a light on the trail; "there's a finger-mark, done in blood on the snow, by the side of the trail, an' a-pintin' right to that ledge; an' here's his shirt a-flappin' on a stick stuck in a snow-bank lookin' t'ward camp."
And then we see some strange clay altars containin' cremated human bein's. Here Josiah hunched me agin "You feel dretful cut up if you hear any one speak aginst these old creeters, but what do you think of that?" sez he, a-pintin' to the burnt bodies. Sez he, "Most likely them bodies wuz victims that wuz killed on their dum altars dum 'em!"
"And the old well-sweep a-pintin' up into the sky overhead, as if a-callin' Heaven to witness that it wuzn't to blame for the state of things "And the apple trees, with low swingin' branches, with no bare brown feet to press on 'em on the way up to the robin's nest overhead empty barns, ruins, weedy gardens, long, lonesome stretches of paster and medder lands
Yes, my pardner's face wuz as calm as the figger on the outside of the almanac a-holdin' the bottle, and his axent wuz mildly wonderin' and gently sarcestickle. "How a steeple would look a-pintin' down! That is a true woman's idee."
Sez I, "I would have it a-pintin' down towards the depths of darkness that wuz in that man's heart that roze it up, and the infamy of the deed that kep him in the meetin' house and turned his victim out of it." "I d'no as she wuz his victim," sez Josiah. Sez I, "Every one knows that in the first place Simeon Lathers wuz the man that led her astray."
"Lemme git dar a minute, Miss Betsey, I'se got moughty sharp years, I is." "They're no sharper than mine, I reckon, and I couldn't hear if I stood an' listened forever. It's about the road most likely, for I see old Adam a-pintin'." For a minute after dismounting the stranger looked dubiously at the mottled face of the tavern.
Both t'other ones he'd seen over and over agin, but Niagara he'd never sot eyes on. "So as soon as he arrives, he goes into the public room, and looks at the white waters, and, sais he, 'Waiter, sais he, 'is them the falls down there? a-pintin' by accident in the direction where the Falls actilly was. "'Yes, Sir, sais the waiter. "'Hem! sais Rufe, 'them's the Falls of Niagara, eh!
"How a steeple would look a-pintin' down! That is a true woman's idee." Sez I, "I would have it a-pintin' down towards the depths of darkness that wuz in that man's heart that roze it up, and the infamy of the deed that kep him in the meetin' house and turned his victim out of it." "I d'no as she wuz his victim," sez Josiah.
I want to see 'em, anyway," and he turned and went to go into one of the big palaces. Sez he, "He seemed to be a-pintin' this way; we must have missed 'em the day we wuz here."
Both t'other ones he'd seen over and over agin, but Niagara he'd never sot eyes on. "So as soon as he arrives, he goes into the public room, and looks at the white waters, and, sais he, 'Waiter, sais he, 'is them the falls down there? a-pintin' by accident in the direction where the Falls actilly was. "'Yes, Sir, sais the waiter. "'Hem! sais Rufe, 'them's the Falls of Niagara, eh!
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