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All of this is taken from the McAfee MSS., in Colonel Durrett's library. McAfee MSS. A similar adventure befell my brother Elliott and my cousin John Roosevelt while they were hunting buffalo on the staked plains of Texas in 1877. They evidently wore breech-clouts and leggings, not trowsers. McAfee MSS. Filson's "Boon." October 10, 1773, Filson's "Boon."
Elliott had reported from Buffalo that "the roads are good, except for thirteen miles, which is intolerably bad; so bad that ordnance cannot be brought in wagons; it must come when snow is on the ground, and then in sleds." All expectation of contesting Lake Erie was therefore abandoned for that year, and effort concentrated on Ontario.
Elliott," returned the person addressed, glancing at the clergyman, who, standing in the midst of a group of young men, glass in hand, was telling a story and laughing at his own witticisms. "Nothing strait-laced about Mr. Elliott," remarked the other. "I like him for that.
Here Beckwith took charge of the train, Col. Elliott recommending him very highly, and telling the emigrants that if they would only obey his orders he would pilot them through in safety.
"Look here," he said, "when you git an order from anyone, don't give 'em no back talk. That's the first thing you've got to learn, and the earlier you learn it the less trouble you'll have. If you don't like it, take it out in swearin' under your breath, but obey." "But, Sargint, he said that Corpril Elliott was a better soldier'n" "Silence in ranks," said Si, giving him a shake. "Right dress.
He had rushed up to Gill Mace, and pulling him away from the others had engaged him in combat. All the fellows knew that when Professor Elliott came home a few days previous quite a lot of complaints and delinquencies awaited him. Among these the only one very serious was the burning of a haystack belonging to a farmer named Wadsworth. Suspicion had pointed to the Banbury crowd.
"It is two years tonight since the dance at the light, when Jack Elliott brought us news of the war. Do you remember, Miss Oliver?" Cousin Sophia answered for Miss Oliver. "Oh, indeed, Rilla, I remember that evening only too well, and you a-prancing down here to show off your party clothes. Didn't I warn you that we could not tell what was before us?
Hendricks." Stone looked grave. "Anything more to say, Mr. Elliott?" "Yes, I have! And it's this: I asked you to come here. I asked you to take this case as you've already surmised to free Mrs, Embury from wrongful suspicion. Wrongful, mind you! I do not want you to clear her if she is guilty. But she isn't. Therefore, I want you to find the real criminal. That's what I want!"
"He's a trump!" said Clifford, "and if he swears the world is as good and pure as his own heart, I'll swear he's right." Elliott rubbed his charcoal on his file to get a point and turned to his sketch saying, "He will never hear any pessimism from Richard Osborne E." "He's a lesson to me," said Clifford.
Elliott had been almost like a mother to me, and I could not refuse to go with her when she requested me to do so. After I had been at the Fort about two weeks Mrs. Elliott said she was going to give another party, but I told her I had a lawful excuse this time for not dancing, as the surgeon would not allow me to dance on account of my shoulder. Among the balance of Mrs.
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