Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 20, 2025
An' that fool up an' says it was me done th' starin', and I'd got to stop it or he'd cut out my damn heart an' them was his very words. An' by noon yesterday he was drunker'n a Dutchman, an' was starin' harder'n ever.
"Do you know," said Labe, "I believe Helen Kendall's comin' there for a week did 'em more good than anything else. She got away from her soldier nursin' somehow must have been able to pull the strings consider'ble harder'n the average to do it and just came down to the Snow place and sort of took charge along with Rachel.
He's slicker on a trail than any other Injun on the border, unless mebbe it's old Wingenund, the Huron. This Shawnee'd lead us many a mile for nuthin', if we'd stick to his trail. I'm long ago used to him. He's doubled like an old fox, run harder'n a skeered fawn, an', if needs be, he'll lay low as cunnin' buck. I calkilate once over the mountain, he's made a bee-line east.
"Kid," he said huskily, "I'm a hard-headed old cuss, harder'n brass tacks. I been made so by just such men as Andy Bishop " He paused, and during his short hesitation, pregnant with meaning, Tessibel kept her eyes on him. "I was wonderin', little one," he finished, shame-faced, "when you say your prayers, if you'd pipe one for me. I need it, so help me God, I do."
I mout a bin a little riled an' hit harder'n I orter, but I didn't mean anything by it, an' he did cough it up on my clean floor, an' I'm willin' to say agin' I was a little hasty, that's true, in callin' him a lop-sided son of a pigeon-toed monkey, for Bud riled me mighty. But what you reckin he done?" She shook her finger in his face again. Bud tried to run again.
That's th' gun, I make no doubt, an' Ellen knew it but if we're worth killin' we'll dig into this harder'n ever. Here's poor Thomas, makes one more notch on my record. I'm not sayin' quit! An' you're th' bravest man in Corvan, too!" At Last's Holding the Vigilantes stopped for rest and food. They had been in saddle the better part of forty-eight hours.
And by and by the fog come down and shut us in, and that fixed what little hope I had of bein' seen by the life patrol on shore. "The breeze died out flat about three o'clock. In one way this was a good thing. In another it wa'n't, because we was well out in deep water, and when the wind did come it was likely to come harder'n we needed.
Purty soon I takes a swim, and comes out and lays there some more, spitting into the water and thinking what shall I do now, and watching birds and things moving around, and ants working harder'n ever I would agin unless I got better pray fur it, and these here tumble bugs kicking their loads along hind end to. After a while it is getting along toward noon, and I'm feeling hungry.
"I'll have to stop him, then. I'll try it, anyway." "It needs somebody that can wollup him harder'n I can; he's gettin' too big for my stren'th. Well, if here they don't both come! I don't know when I've seen them two boys together before, 'less they was fightin'. I wonder what's got into 'em to-day."
An' I 'lowed it was, what there was of it; an' so was the boulders good, for boulders, the trouble was in the mixin'. 'Don't talk to me about your "decomposed granite," says I: 'it's the granite what ain't decomposed that bothers me. But pshaw!" and Lysander dropped his voice hopelessly, "he ain't a-carin'. I'd about as soon work the boulders as try to work him; he's harder'n any boulder on the ranch."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking