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Updated: June 17, 2025
"Well, now, I guess you're pretty considerable rich. Coming to settle out west, I suppose?" "No, I'm going back at the end of the fall." "Well, now, if that's not a pretty tough hickory-nut! I guess you Britishers are the queerest critturs as ever was raised!"
The evening is dry and clear, with no trace of rain in the atmosphere, or we would be surrounded with clouds of those awful critturs, the musquitoes, which the cattle bring home. These are often a dreadful annoyance, nothing but a thick cloud of smoke dispelling them, and that only for a time.
"See, something has been fired away to the right front. They may be working round that way and will miss us here. What are our chances?" "Nix," responded the scout decidedly. "Them critturs hev got to git around this way. They're on a line that'll strike Fort Randall, wi' a heap more military 'n they'll notion. They'll strike south an' sweep round sheer through to Wyoming.
"Poor critturs!" the eldest of the hunters, who was called Abe by the others, said, "they are as light-hearted as if they war a-going to a camp meeting; they don't know what's afore them." The party rode on to the head of the waggons, where the oxen were led by the man who was regarded as the head of the party. He had at one time been a hunter, but had married and settled down on a farm.
"As I lie here, with you sitting by my side, looking so serene, I can say, for the first time for half a century, that I have nothing on my mind. "But, Grizel, I should have married," he told her. "The chief lesson my life has taught me is that they are poor critturs the men who don't marry." "If you had married," she said, "you might never have been able to help me."
Why, we call them critturs here DIMIGOGUES! Now, young 'Squire Littlepage, who owns the Nest House, over yonder, and who is owner of all this estate, far and near, is what we call an aristocrat, and he hasn't power enough to be named town clerk, much less to anything considerable, or what is worth having." "How can he be an arisdograt, den?" "How, sure enough, if your account be true!
"Tom, you seem to think the Lord needs a great deal done for him," said St. Clare, smiling. "We does for the Lord when we does for his critturs," said Tom. "Good theology, Tom; better than Dr. B. preaches, I dare swear," said St. Clare. The conversation was here interrupted by the announcement of some visitors. Marie St.
"Do behave yourselves, you ungenteel critturs," said she; "Phoebe Bruce, you're old enough to know better; don't expose yourself before stranngers. Thar they come now; thar's Cunnel Bruce that is, talking to Captain Forrester that is, and a right-down soldier-looking captain he is, too. I wonder whar's his cocked hat, and feather, and goold epaulets?
We fancy these Europeans will begin to think in time that Jonathan has some pretty shrewd notions concerning themselves, the critturs! This was extracted from the People's Advocate, a journal edited with great ability, by Peleg Pond, esquire, a thorough-going republican, and a profound observer of mankind." "In his own parish in particular," quaintly added John Effingham.
An extra loud burst of the storming wind held the men silent a moment, then, as it died away, Victor went on. "Yes, I see her with my own two eyes, an' I ain't like to ferget it neither. Say, ye've seen them Bible 'lustrations in my shanty? Them pictur's o' lovesome critturs wi' feathery wings an' sech?" "I guess." "Wal, clip them wings sheer off, an' you've got her dead right." "Mush!
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