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Updated: June 29, 2025
"A sight" was a prospect for a robbery, and to commit it was, to "raise the sight," or if it was a burglary or a highway robbery, the man robbed was "raked down." A man killed was "nepoed" a word which many new settlers in Wisconsin got from the Indians . This bit of frontier argot was rather common in the West in the 'fifties.
It did not take long for even my slow mind to see that they had come to this grove as I had done, for the purpose of hiding, nor to realize that it might be very unsafe for us to be detected in any discovery of these men in possession of whatever property they might have seized. It did not seem probable that we should be "nepoed" but, after all, why not?
"I'm always lookin'," said one, "to find some of these damned movers campin' in here when we come in with a raise." "If I find any," said another, "they will be nepoed, damned quick."
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