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As the flat boat with its unwieldy load was in no particular hurry, he soon overhauled it and a blast from the bugle caused the navigator of the craft to cast his eyes up stream. He gazed curiously at Paul for a moment and exclaimed: "Wall, drat my buttons, I never thought I would see a human critter goin' down the Missouri in sich a rig as thet."
"The young lady is SHE comfortable?" said Jeff, accepting his aunt's previous remark as confirmatory. "Ez well ez enny critter marked by the finger of the Lord with gallopin' consumption kin be, I reckon. And she, ez oughter be putting off airthly vanities, askin' for a lookin'-glass!
I thought you were telling me an adventure of your own" "Well sir, this beautiful critter asked my help, just as you're doing dragged me hither and thither, first asking for one soldier, then another." "And finally, smiling very sweetly on yourself. I know their ways said the stranger. "Do you, now? Not joking?
I got set down to one table, but it was so draughty I moved to another where a young girl was sittin' alone. A man, a homely, long-necked critter made for that place too, but I got there first. I don't know whether I'm glad or sorry I did. Ben, she was the prettiest girl in this world." Miss Upton paused to see if this solemn statement awakened an interest in her listener.
We've ate a whole pig an' half a beef critter this winter, to say nothin' of eggs an' milk, that are jest as much animal as meat, accordin' to my way of thinkin'. I've reasoned it out all along that as long as we were animals ourselves, an' wanted to strengthen animal, that it was common-sense that we ought to eat animal. It seemed to me that nature had so ordered it.
"You see it wuz like this: the mother had gone out into the back yard to hang some clo'es onto the line, 'nd she laid the baby down in the crib. Baby wa'n't more 'n six weeks old, helpless little critter as ever you seen. Wall, all to oncet the mother heerd the baby cryin', but bein' busy with them clo'es she didn't mind much.
They hauled him up the ship's side, and then that sailor let himself down over the rails by a rope, and cut a hole in the shark's gullet, or whatever they call the pouch the critter carries his supplies in, and took out the pork. Then he dropped him back in the water and threw the pork in after him.
This the woodsman now proceeded to examine attentively, for something like a minute, during which time a troubled expression rested on his dark, sunburnt features. "I'm either mightily mistaken," said he at length, with a grave look, "or that thar horse and saddle is the property of Ben Younker; and I reckon it's the same critter as is rid by Ella Barnwell.
Rowed forty mile after a whale onct, 'n' caught the critter fairly rowed him down. Current's putty lively. Sh'd say 't was tearin' off 'bout five knots an hour. But guess I'll try it. Sh'd kinder like to feel water under me agin." "Captain, you shall handle the ship," smiled Thurstane. "I'll mention you by name in my report. Who next?" "Me," yelped Sweeny. "Can you row, Sweeny?"
I am told that it means, what it imports, a conservation of things as they are. Where, then, is the difference? If there is no difference, it is a mere juggle to change the name: if there is a difference, the word is worse than a juggle, for it don't import any." "Tell you what," said Mr. Slick, "I heerd an old critter to Halifax once describe 'em beautiful.
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