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But the old Hudson's Bay trapper had a great reluctance to tell them. His instinct to protect Jessie was strong. "I've saved ye the trouble, Mr. West. The guilty yin was o' my ain family. Your young man will tell ye I've done a' the horsewhippin' that's necessary." The big trail boss looked blackly at his helper. He would settle with Morse at the proper time. Now he had other business on hand.
Why, sir, so help me, sir, I've a notion to jump down right now an' give you the horsewhippin' of your life!" Steve, in spite of himself, chuckled. Terry, reassured about her father, giggled. Both sounds were audible; the two, mingled, were entirely too much to be borne. "You you disgrace to an honorable name," the old man called bitterly and wrathfully. "You "
What business is it o' yourn horsewhippin' a man that's hangin' round another man's wife unless " "Hold on there," said Raven. "I gave him his medicine because he was too fresh." Here he allowed himself a salutary instant of swagger. Tenney might as well think him a devil of a fellow, quick to act and hard to hold. "It happens to be my way.
Getz sprawled over his fallen antagonist and snatched his whip from him. "Come on, Absalom we'll learn him oncet!" he cried fiercely. "We'll learn him what horsewhippin' is! We'll give him a lickin' he won't forget!"
It isn't a clear case that you'd get the indulgence, but it is a clear case that you wor sure to get a horsewhippin'. Now, you know a horse-whippin' 'ud make a man repint goin' to him, an' when a man's in a repintin' state, he may as well repint for whatever sins he has committed, while his hand's in.
Well, there was this procthor I'm tellin' of, his name was Callaghan; he was a dark-haired I'll-lookin' fellow, with a squint and a stutther; but for all that, he had a daicent, quiet, well-behaved family that offended nobody not like our proud horsewhippin' neighbors; an', indeed, his daughters did not mount their side-saddles like some of the same neighbors, but sure we all know the ould proverb, set a beggar on horseback, and we needn't tell you where he'll ride to.
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