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"She she wants to leave home, Mr. Baines." Nahum said this with mild amazement. His amazement would have been no greater and not a whit less mild had his daughter announced her intention to swim from New York to Liverpool, or to marry the chef of the Czar of Russia. "Um!... Can't say's that's onnatural so's to require callin' in a doctor. Live five mile from town, don't you?
I was nigh jumpin' straight off that there ledge, right into the landscape an' eternity! There, starin' 'round the wall o' rock, not one inch more than a foot away from mine, was the face o' the bear. "Well, I was scared. There's no gittin' round that fact. There was something so onnatural about that big, wicked face hangin' there over that awful height, an' starin' so close into mine.
"Well, miss, the question is not so onnatural as it might be, I reckon," replied the former; "and I have been expecting you'd wonder some why I led you on such a jaunt as we've had. But the fact was, your chance of getting off has been a little scaly, to-day, to say nothing of the shadow of a rope that's been round my own neck in the mean time."
"But ships a'n't like they oncst was, ladies," he added, "before men put these here heavy iron ingines to work in 'em it's like cropping a bird's wing to make a river-boat of a ship, and a dead, dead shame to shorten sails till it looks like a young gal dressed in breeches or any other onnatural thing for a sailing-ship and a full-flowing petticoat always rise up in a true man's mind together God bless them both, I say."
He had apparently arrived at the possession of money some way or other, and overtaking them on the road at some considerable distance away he had bidden them, with threats, to take themselves out of his sight, since he had no further use for them. "He was full of drink," Patsy said, looking down. "Your Ladyship, his tratement of them was something onnatural.
But the moonlight war mightily slivered up, fallin' through the needles of the pines an' the skeins of dead vines, an' looked bleached and onnatural, an' holped the dark mighty leetle. An' they seen the water a-shinin' an' a-plungin' down the gorge, an' the glistenin' of the frost on the floor o' the bredge.
"I thought it was onnatural dark and still the first ten minutes," Jack admitted honestly; "but arter the first set o' corves came along I never thawt no more about the dark." "Here we are at the shaft, joomp in, there's just room for you and me."
Arizona shot a quick, disdainful glance at the powerful figure of the parson's progeny, and went on in his own peculiar fashion fashion "Wal, it so happened that the records o' the 'U bar U's' kind o' got noised abroad some, as they say in the gospel. Them coyotes as reckoned they wus smart 'lowed as even the cattle found a shortage o' liquid by reason of an onnatural thirst on that ranch.
"Wade, I've heerd of you fer years. Some bad, but most good, an' I reckon I'm jest as glad to meet you as if you'd been somebody else." "You'll give me the job?" "I should smile." "I'm thankin' you. Reckon I was some worried. Jobs are hard for me to get an' harder to keep." "Thet's not onnatural, considerin' the hell which's said to camp on your trail," replied Belllounds, dryly.
"Why, Tim, you are accustomed to see thousands of men, every day, with nothing on but a loincloth." "Yes, yer honor, but then they're hathens, and it seems natural for them to do so; but for a dacent boy to go walking about in the streets, with a thing on which covers no more than his shirt, is onnatural altogether.
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