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"I guess he cud, Elmer, though w'en yuh wants tuh trap muskrats yuh need sum sort o' craft the wust kind. P'raps he didn't chanct tuh run across our skiffs up tuh last night. Then agin mebbe he was askeered tuh snatch one, fur fear we'd hunt arter it, an' bother him in the swamp."
Chrisfield closed the door carefully, and turned to Andrews with a smile. "Ah was right smart 'askeered ye wouldn't find it, Andy." "So this is where you live?" "Um hum, a bunch of us lives here." A wide bed without coverings, where a man in olive-drab slept rolled in a blanket, was the only furniture of the room. "Three of us sleeps in that bed," said Chrisfield.
Bud, you an' them two Heffner boys go up an' tell them loafers to step down here right spry er I'll come up there an' see about it." "Gosh, Mr. Crow, I'm a-skeered to!" whimpered Bud. The Heffner boys started for home on a dead run. "Askeered to?" sniffed Anderson. "An' your great-grand-dad was in the Revolution, too. Geminy crickets, ef you was my boy I'd give you somethin' to be askeered of!
"You didn't give it to him, I hope." "No, indeedy, but he come so close to me dat I was askeered he might take it from me, so I kept hold ob a club. He suah was a bad-lookin' tramp, an' he kept laffin' all de while, like he was happy." "What's that?" cried Tom, struck by the words of the colored man. "Did he have a thick, brown beard?"
"Why, I do believe Washington's afraid!" cried Jack jokingly. "Askeered! Who's afraid?" retorted the colored man boldly. "Didn't I done tole yo' dat I got t' feed my rooster? Heah him crowin' now? Yo' all go 'long, an' I'll meet yo' later," and with that Washington disappeared quickly. "Well, he'll soon pluck up courage and come out," declared Professor Henderson.
A feller who lives on the plains like I do ought to take to the sea like a duck, but it don't seem to suit me." "God, they're a sick lookin' bunch I have to sling the hash to," said Fuselli more cheerfully. "I don't know how they get that way. The fellers in our company ain't that way. They look like they was askeered somebody was going to hit 'em. Ever noticed that, Meadville?"
Else why is he wanderin' around here close to the house? I'll question him." "By gosh, he ain't no ghost!" murmured Ed Higgins, eyeing the newcomer as he crawled up the bank. "Say, did y' see me a minute ago? If you fellers had come on, I was goin' right up to search that house from top to bottom. Was you all askeered to come?" "Aw, you!" said Anderson Crow in deep scorn.
That may not be pleasant for you to hear, Jake, but it's what I mean to have done. There's only one way you can escape it. Do you want to hear what that way is?" "Yuh're away off the track, young feller," blurted the man, obstinately shaking his head in a contrary way, "I ain't done nawthin' to make me askeered o' the law officers.
He done says as how he's on guard a deteckertiff an' I can't go nigh dat buildin' t' sweep up de refuse." "Well, that's right, Rad. I'd prefer that you keep away. I'm doing some special work in there and it's " "Am it dangerous, Massa Tom? I ain't askeered! Anybody whut kin drive mah mule Boomerang " "I know, Eradicate, but this isn't so dangerous.
Prostrate bodies in olive drab hid the patch of tender green grass by the roadside. The company was resting. Chrisfield sat on a stump morosely whittling at a stick with a pocket knife. Judkins was stretched out beside him. "What the hell do they make us do this damn hikin' for, Corp?" "Guess they're askeered we'll forgit how to walk."
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