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Updated: June 12, 2025
"From a travelin' feller that wandered up into our mount'ins. He could play it an' sing it most beautiful, an' I took to it right off. It grips you about the heart some way or other, an' it sounds best when you are out at night on a river like this. Harry, I know that you're goin' through our mountins to git to Richmond an' the war. Me an' that lunkhead Ike, my nephew, hev took a likin' to you.
In some of these, it was necessary to employ the services of one of the men, and Miss Edwards, without much thought of why, except that she was used to him, singled out Jim as her assistant. To her surprise, he excused himself, and begged to substitute Missouri Joe. "You see, Miss Edwards, I've been a long time meanin' to take a trip into the mount'ins.
They goes and dies in 'em, ma'am but old Jim don't die. He knows the mount'ins, he does! He, he!" Solange took a step toward him. "What do you wish?" she repeated, sternly. Still, she did not fear him. "Just to talk, ma'am. Just to talk about French Pete. Just to talk about gold. Old Jim's been a-huntin' gold a many years, ma'am.
"Did that happen here?" "Yes. My great-grandfather an' his oldest son was up in the mount'ins, and his wife was a-comin' back from there by herself once. Just as she got where she could see her little children a-playin' in the yard, three Injuns jumped out o' the woods that was nigh to the house then, an' run into the yard an' killed the children right before her eyes.
Thar's nobody left hyeh but you 'n' me, but these mount'ins was never big 'nough fer one Lewallen 'n' one Stetson, 'n' you've got to go. I reckon ye won't believe me, but I'm glad I didn't hev to kill ye. But you've promised to go, now, 'n' I'll take yer word fer it." He turned his face, and the Lewallen, knowing it from the sound of his voice, sprang to his feet. "Oh !"
But the night my little girl died, nine years ago, she rose up in bed once, an' she says, 'Who is that a-cryin' up there in the mount'ins? We couldn't hear nothin' still, but we knew what she had heard, an' after that we didn't have no more hope."
But it ain't in the law of the mount'ins to be careless. We've got to watch." "I agree with you there, Mac," replied Aldous. "We cannot afford to lose our caution for a minute. But I'm feeling a deuced sight better over the situation just the same. If we can only get there ahead of them!" "If Quade is in the bunch we've got a chance of beating them," said MacDonald thoughtfully.
We got plenty of things in our favour No, sir, it ain't as bad as it might be with them woods full of smoke. Thar's a railroad over thar" he continued, nodding to the wilderness beyond them. "I cal'late we could make the railroad in, say, four days. Let's see Bear Pond as fur as the leetle Still water; then over them Green Mount'ins and through Alder Swamp."
If Quade and Rann are in the next valley they can't get over the mount'ins to get at us. Quade, with all his flesh, couldn't climb over that range to the west of us inside o' three days, if he could get over it at all. They're hikin' straight for the gold over another trail, or they're behind us, an' mebby both." "How both?" asked Aldous.
Hundreds of animals are winter-killed in these mount'ins every year, an' when spring comes the bears eat the carcasses; but old flesh don't make game-killers. Sometimes it's born in a grizzly to be a killer, an' sometimes he becomes a killer by chance. If he kills once, he'll kill again. "Once I was on the side of a mount'in an' saw a goat walk straight into the face of a grizzly.
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