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Norful good fighters! And they wear funny kit. And their thwords are like vis. Eggzackly. Gunnoo gave me a ride on 'Fire, and he'th a dam-liar. He thaid he forgot to put the warm jhool on him when Daddy was going to fwash him for being a dam-fool. I thaid I'd tell Daddy how he alwayth thleepth in it himthelf, unleth he gave me a ride on 'Fire'. 'Fire' gave a norful buck and bucked me off.
Listen, thar she goes ag'in, like thunder, but not thunder eggzackly." "Can you make out what it is?" "I wuz in the big French an' Injun War, too, when I wuz jest a mite uv a boy," replied the scout, "and when I wuz layin' in the woods one day an' one uv them battles wuz goin' on I heard a sound that's like the one I've been hearin' now." "What was it?" exclaimed the Major eagerly.
"I don't know yet whether I've heard anything but the thunder an' the wind," he replied, "but I seemed to hear somethin'. It wuz fur away, an' it growled low and threatenin' like thunder. An' it wuzn't eggzackly like thunder, either. I don't quite seem to make it out. Hark! thar she goes ag'in!"
It's my second watch, if I remember right, and I'll be ready to turn out at eight bells." "Well," said Trunnell, "where they is an' where they is not, stumps me. Where a feller goes when he dies is mostly a matter o' guesswork, so I don't know as I can say eggzackly jest where them fellers is at." Here he took a long drink, and wiped his mouth on the back of his hand.
"I remember," replied Paul smiling. "I remember it all, and I do believe, Jim, that you are homesick for the woods." "Not homesick eggzackly, but I jest want to say that a big town like this kin be mighty interestin', but after I've seed it, give me back our own clean woods." "I believe I agree with you, Jim," said Paul thoughtfully.
"Many a good man hez fell sick an' died, jest 'cause his grub wuzn't fixed eggzackly right. An' when you light your fires fur ven'son an' buffalo steaks be shore thar ain't too much smoke. More than once smoke hez brought the savages down on people.
"We've talked the matter over too many times for me to misconstrue your motives. You're thinkin' that I'll amount to somethin' if I get away from here." "I reckon ye've said it, Hiram." Uncle Sebastian voiced this with great relief. "And you're foreclosin' on me to force me to go." "Eggzackly, Hiram. I'm proud that ye interpret my motive." Hiram was silent another long minute.
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