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Updated: June 8, 2025
But I remember it best for a lunatic who caught me out in the fields, one Sunday, and extracted a butcher-knife from his boot and proposed to carve me up with it, unless I acknowledged him to be the only son of the Devil.
Now when we were chasing that Russian hash-mixer or biscuit-shooter out of the kitchen door closely pursued by Louis with the butcher-knife, your old Uncle Hemlock's intuition told him that there was another one of the guilty wretches who had cabbaged the cuff-buttons!
Every settler had, besides his rifle, no other instrument but an axe or hatchet and a butcher-knife. A saw, an auger, a file and a broad-axe would supply a whole settlement, and were used as common property in the erection of the log-cabin. "The labor and employment of a pioneer family were distributed in accordance with surrounding circumstances.
It was the ugly squaw, who forced a greasy butcher-knife into my hand, pointing towards where the raftsman lay, and whispering to me in English, "Stick heem! stick heem! nobody never know. He kill my brother long time ago with this old knife. Kill heem! kill heem now!"
I got a man named Charlie Clark to do the capping for me, and we made a world of money. "Eph" Holland, Alexander, and I were coming out of the Red River one night. The boat was full of people, and a great many were playing poker. It was 2:30 A. M., when a large and powerful man rushed out of the ladies' cabin with nothing on but his night-shirt, and with a large butcher-knife in his hand.
Of the five men I talked with there were only two who had guns. The others were armed with axes and big clubs of oak. One lean fellow carried a long sapling to the end of which he had made fast a long butcher-knife. One of the gunmen said to me that he hoped there would be "a lively chunk of a fight" although he and his friend had only one charge of powder apiece.
"How could you?" But the new recruit caught her round the waist and waltzed her across the room, and then, snatching the butcher-knife from the table, he presented arms and saluted and posed all in such an absurd fashion that in spite of her grief she smiled. "Go right back into the shed till I tell mother," she exclaimed, "she mustn't see you till she has had warning."
Who else could it be? He believed it would be wise to spend most of his spare time in his room. At least until he knew the inwardness of the butcher-knife incident. It was possible that the man who had secreted the knife would return. Racey might well be in line for other even more delicate attentions. Before going up to his room Racey went to the corral.
The dream of my revenge had been so strong in my brain that still I could feel the butcher-knife in my hand ... and I looked into the empty palm to verify the sensation, still there, of clasping the handle. " that you, Johnnie?" called my uncle. "Yep!" "What's the matter? can't you sleep?" "No! got up to take a drink of water."
"Well, I guess we're out of the dude business," he said, laconically. "What's the matter now?" Wallie demanded so savagely that the two burst out laughing. "Nothin' much, except that Hicks is runnin' Stott with the butcher-knife and aims to kill him. I don't know as I blame him. He said his grub was full of ants and looked like scraps for Fido." Wallie was alarmed, but Pinkey reassured him.
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