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It's goin' to be longtaw work, for you see the crick's purty wide, but our guns 'll carry further'n theirs, and if we keep the boys well in hand I think we kin stand 'em off without much trouble." "Sure," said Si confidently. "You watch the other side o' the bridge and I'll look out for the rest."
"Now, Doctor," said old Jerry, "I ain't aimin' to keep anythin' back twixt you'n me, but there's certain things, you understan', that I can't it wan't Teeny-bits but further'n that " "All right, Jerry," said the Head. "I respect your point of view. Go on with your story."
When she slammed out of that livin'-room she went right up the back stairs to her bedroom and I chased after her. She was cryin', or next door to it, and I wanted to comfort her. But she wouldn't let me." "I see. Probably she didn't hear him call at all. He did, though; and he called her by her first name. Matters between 'em must have gone further'n we thought they had." "Yes, I guess that's so.
And I was a civil, pious boy, and could rattle off my catechism that fast as you couldn't tell one word from another. And here's what it come to, Jim, and it begun with chuck-farthen on the blessed gravestones! That's what it begun with, but it went further'n that, and so my mother told me, and predicked the whole, she did, the pious woman. But it were Providence that put me here.
Poor dears, scared almost out o' their skins!" "What did he say?" "Nothin'. That is, not much. About the horse first. My man told him it ain't no use tryin' to ketch him, an' it's foolish to try to cross Thunder Mountain. Murray's been here ten years, an' ain't gone much further'n the edge of it. Storms allus drove him back. An' what's the use, when he's got wife an' childer to look after?
See that scuttle over on Washington Street? Bet I can hit it!" "Bet you can't come within two hundred feet of it!" retorted the watery-eyed scrivener. "It's a lot further'n you think." "'Tain't neither!" declared Willie. "I know how far it is! What can we shoot?" Scraggs' eye wandered aimlessly round the room. "Oh, I don't know." "Got to be something with heft to it," said Willie.
Got your canteen full, Pete? Better fill it before we start. Take mine, too. Don't go any further'n that first spring there, for I don't want to take no chances on losin' you again." The cannonading in the distance grew fiercer, and regiments could be seen rushing up at the doublequick. Long, shrill rebel yells came from the hilltops, and were answered by volleys and deep-toned cheers.
Further'n that I can't go yet. It's a pretty poor job for a fellow like you, and if I was you I wouldn't take it." "Oh, yes, you would," replied Brown, with conviction. "If you were I, you would take it with bells on. Others may yearn for the strenuous life, but not your humble servant. As for me, I stay here and 'clean up around."
"It's gettin' on my nerves. Talk o' cats screechin'!" "I wouldn't do that, Sophy," advised her mother, patiently. "Not but what it's mighty tryin', sometimes, for Cyrille he don't ever get further'n them two first bars of 'The Campbells are comin'." Sophy sniffed and poured herself out strong tea. She drank two cups of it but her appetite was evidently poor, for she hardly touched her food.
Beriah's pet idee was foretelling what the weather was going to be. And he could do it, too, better'n anybody I ever see. He'd smell a storm further'n a cat can smell fish, and he hardly ever made a mistake. Prided himself on it, you understand, like a boy does on his first long pants.
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