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Updated: May 13, 2025
It was of comparatively recent creation, as the Boy's observant eye decided at once from the dead trees still rising here and there from the water. "Gee!" he exclaimed, under his breath. "That's a great pond, Jabe!" "There's no less'n four beaver houses in that pond!" said the woodsman, with an air of proud possession.
"I should say about two hundred tiny tots have gone by, with maybe five hundred more still in line waiting their turn, when there halts in front of Emily a fancy-dressed tiny tot which he must've been the favourite tiny tot of the richest man in town, because he's holding in his hands a bag of peanuts fully a foot deep. It couldn't of cost a cent less'n half a dollar, that bag.
The news brought Joe Rogers and Ephraim Shine together at their secret meeting-place in the corner paddock Rogers much disturbed and puzzled, Shine shaken almost out of his wits. 'I'm goin' to bolt, I tell you! cried the searcher. Rogers gripped him roughly. 'Bolt, he said, 'an' you're doomed done for. Hell! man, can't you see you'd be grabbed in less'n a day?
Less'n an hour, I'd say. Who dropped it, I wonder? There ain't anybody in this yer camp smokes cigarettes." He searched for footprints, but could discover none; a newly-broken twig was all the sign that he could see. He glanced around among the trees, but there was no visible movement, and a whip-poor-will was singing undisturbed from a high bough of a balsam tree close at hand.
But Lawd knows dey ain' no tellin' whar she'd go, 'less'n she got her min' back sence she lef'." Tryon's mare was in good condition. He had money in his pocket and nothing to interfere with his movements.
He went on to tell me how they et worms an' potato bugs an' beetles an' goodness knows what else, an' that he wa'n't goin' to turn the temple of his body into no slaughter-house. He asked me if I desired to eat dead animals, an' when he insisted on an answer, I told him I certainly shouldn't care to eat 'em less'n they was dead, and from then on it was worse 'n ever.
Within ten minutes Hap Smith was clattering on, his and the guard's mouths and eyes grim and hard, and Thornton had again dropped behind, just out of sight around the first bend in the road. "And now, my boy," muttered Hap Smith to his friend the guard, "keep both eyes peeled and your trigger-finger free. Hell's goin' to pop in considerable less'n no time."
That's the reason, I guess, why none of us ever tried to explore this place. Say, we seem to be getting in worse and worse, Paul. It isn't more'n a foot deep over there on the right, and less'n ten inches here on the left."
"Not less'n four to the oars!" shouted a gruff voice, at the foot of the steps, where the salt water, splashing on the snow, had laid bare the green and slimy moss. Two or three volunteers stumbled down the steps, and the first boat got away, swinging down-stream at once, only to be brought slowly back, head to wind.
But mental calculation was laborious and he made a plunge: "Not a cent less'n seventy-five, an' I ain't goin' to argue with ye." Arch scowled. "Split the difference!" he commanded. "All right." A few minutes later Arch was loping back up the river road. Within an hour he had won old Jason to a non-committal silence and straight-way volunteered to show the colonel the outcroppings of his coal.
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