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"I fear me that it an't worth picking up," replied the trapper, fingering the shining particles. "Leastwise I once collected a bag o' the same an' showed it to a man in the settlements who got the credit o' bein' a knowin' fellow in regard to metals. He told me it was somethin' that I don't remember the name of, but worth nothing, so I heaved it away."
An' the funny part of it was, he stopped me an' ast me about her. Doggone, I wish I'd ast him his name." "You don't mean it!" cried Bonner, all interest. "Asked about her? Was he a stranger?" "I think he was. Leastwise, he said he hadn't been aroun' here fer more'n twenty year. Y'see, it was this way.
"The kid ain't in our court," the girl explained. "He's in W., he is, and I've never been out of W.C.; leastwise, not as I knows on." "This is W. I suppose you mean that the child is at West Kensington? Well, no doubt it was better for William's wife to get rid of the child " "Better!" interposed the girl. "'Tain't better for her not to have the kid.
"We'd a few words o' th' road a-coming leastwise she had, for she got it pretty much to herself and for th' next twelve hours or so she'll not be able to see anybody under a squire." "Is she often like that, Dan?" "Well, it doesn't come more days than seven i' th' week." "Why, you don't mean to say it's so every day?" said Agnes, the younger woman of our trio. Dan shook his head.
"Oh no, Mrs Tipps, not by no means," said Marrot, hasting to relieve the timid old lady's feelings, "Mr Joseph is all right nothing wotiver wrong with him nor likely to be, ma'am. Leastwise he wos all right w'en I seed 'im last." "And when might that be?" asked the timid old lady with a sigh of relief as she clasped her hands tightly together.
"Fire at it, then. If ye hit the tree ye desarve the rifle leastwise ye ought to get the pup." Henri grinned again, and fired instantly, without taking aim. The shot was followed by an exclamation of surprise, for the bullet was found close beside the nail! "It's more be good luck than good shootin'," remarked Jim Scraggs.
"But we don't want to be too certain of winnin', at that," cautioned Bud; "arter all, that Helena runner is a professional, an' Wilson is only an amateur, no matter how good he may be. A feller thet makes a livin' out of a thing is likely to do it better than the sport thet does it fer fun, leastwise, thet's the way I figger it out."
Vinsolving?" he said, lifting a tousled head above his palings. "Yessum, she lives there leastwise she did. She moved away only the day before yesterday. Sort of sudden, I think it must have been. I didn't know she was going till she was gone."
"The kid ain't in our court," the girl explained. "He's in W., he is, and I've never been out of W.C., leastwise, not as I knows on." "This is W. I suppose you mean that the child is at West Kensington? Well, no doubt it was better for William's wife to get rid of the child " "Better!" interposed the girl. "'Tain't better for her not to have the kid.
At this point Bounce recollected having seen an Indian missionary, who had been taken when a boy from his father's wigwam and educated, and who had turned out as good and respectable a Christian gentleman as most white men, and better than many, so he checked himself and said "Leastwise they can't be nothin' but savages so so long as they is savages."
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