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Updated: September 22, 2025
Air ye shore?" "Jess ez shore ez in the last great day thar'll be some 'un settin' in judgement atween him an' me. I wanted him ter be jess ez shore about me. I came out in plain sight, and drawed his attention. He knowed me at fust glimpse, an' pulled his revolver. I kivered his heart with the sights an' tetcht the trigger.
I slipt inter bed one Chuseday night, an' I never slip out no mo' fer mighty nigh er mont'. "Nex' mornin' de meezles 'd done kivered me, an' den ef I didn't git dosted by de ole 'oman I'm a Chinee. She gimme back rashuns er sassafac tea. I des natchully hankered an' got hongry atter water, an ev'y time I sing out fer water I got b'ilin' hot sassafac tea.
He disappeared behind the curtain and could be heard in a kindly, jovial tone: "There, sonny, keep kivered; the lady is coming to bring you something better than the doctor's gruel, so lie still."
"I got the blanket off at last, arter I had made about a mile, I reckon, and then for the fust time I could see about me. Such a sight! The moon wur up, an' I kud see that the ground wur white with snow. It had snowed while I wur asleep; but that wan't the sight the sight war, that clost up an' around me the hul parairy wur kivered with wolves cussed parairy-wolves!
I'm jist lying here, with a derringer into each hand, jist lying here kivered up and holdin' in on'y to keep from blowin' the top o' this d d skunk's head off. I kinder feel I can't hold in any longer.
Yere's the first verse: I'd drink an' sw'ar an' r'ar an' t'ar An' fall down in the mud, While the y'earth for forty miles about Is kivered with my blood. "'You-all can see from that speciment that our schoolmaster ain't simply flirtin' with the muses when he originates that epic; no sir, he means business; an' whenever I throws it into the selectmen, I does it jestice.
Now supposen a neat housekeeper shouldn't hev nothin fur to say, tu a parcel of careless heedless boys and gals, cause she must say the same old thing over every day. Hezekiah clean yer feet. Matilda, hang up yer shawl. Susan Maria put away yer gloves, what kind of a house du ye think that air would be, all topsy turvey and kivered with dirt?
I never drunk the half of what you gin me! I put it up there on the mantel, and kivered it over with the brass candlestick, to keep till I go to bed. No, indeed! my head-piece is as clear as a bell!" said the old woman, nodding. "But what put it in there, then, that Mr. Herman Brudenell has married a lady with a ridiculous name?" laughed Nora.
"We're ekal now," he said with grim intensity, and pointed to the chasm through which ran the stream which made Madge Brierly's refuge an island. "That gully air a hundred feet straight down," he said, "an' its bottom air kivered with rocks. When we're through, your body or mine'll lay there. Air you ready?"
He says softly to hisself, 'Dis is no consignment, manifes'ly, to Isaac an' Jacob Cannon, an' he kivered me up again, an' the woman fetched me yer, put on de irons, and shoved me into dis hole in de garret." "I reckon that was Isaac Cannon, t'other Levite that never sees anything that ain't in his quoshint." "How's the purty gals, Jimmy? I shall see' em in my dreams, I' spect, if I am sold Souf.
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