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I ses "Oh!" "I'm afraid I shall 'ave to get rid of it," he ses. "It's on the barge now. My missis won't 'ave it in the 'ouse any more cos it bit the baby. And o' course it was no good p'inting out to 'er that it was its first bite. Even the law allows one bite, but it's no good talking about the law to wimmen." "Except when it's on their side," I ses.
"'Now, Lobelia 'Ankins, says I, 'put down that and be sociable, there's a good girl. "'Course I knew she couldn't understand me, but I was whistling to keep my courage up, as the saying is. "''Ammond! says she, p'inting toward the woods. "'Yes, says I, 'Hammond's taking a walk for his health. "''Ammond! says she, louder, and shaking the stick.
Field laughed: his right arm was back upon the arm of his chair, and his fingers under his coat played with something that clicked. "Just so," Long went on, as if Field had spoken, perhaps a shade darker in the face, but with the same even manner and voice. "Our bears don't carry no coward's devil-fingers that kill by p'inting at twenty foot, but they hev got teeth and claws."
"Speak up to the others." "Ah, the others!" returned John. "They're a nice lot, ain't they? You say this cruise is bungled. Ah! by gum, if you could understand how bad it's bungled, you would see! We're that near the gibbet that my neck's stiff with thinking on it. You've seen 'em, maybe, hanged in chains, birds about 'em, seamen p'inting 'em out as they go down with the tide.
I'll walk behind you and rest this gun-barrel on your shoulder, p'inting forward so. Keep your lantern well up so's I can see things ahead of you good. I'm going to march in on Noakes and take him and jug the other chaps. If you flinch well, you know me." "Ay-ay, sir."
"Speak up to the others." "Ah, the others!" returned John. "They're a nice lot, ain't they? You say this cruise is bungled. Ah! by gum, if you could understand how bad it's bungled, you would see! We're that near the gibbet that my neck's stiff with thinking on it. You've seen 'em, maybe, hanged in chains, birds about 'em, seamen p'inting 'em out as they go down with the tide.
And when later he overheard the garrulous Jones declare that he'd bet a hoss he could p'int out somebody as know'd a blamed sight more'n they keerd to tell, he made up his mind that if it came to p'inting out he should try to be even with Jones.
After Enright an' Peets has organised an' gone p'inting out for the ha'nted Bar-B-8 sign-camp to investigate the spook, Dan can't talk of nothin' else. "'Them's mighty dead game gents, Enright an' Doc Peets is! says Dan. 'I wouldn't go searchin' for no sperits more'n I'd write letters to rattlesnakes! I draws the line at intimacies with fiends.
"Speak up to the others." "Ah, the others!" returned John. "They're a nice lot, ain't they? You say this cruise is bungled. Ah! By gum, if you could understand how bad it's bungled, you would see! We're that near the gibbet that my neck's stiff with thinking on it. You've seen 'em, maybe, hanged in chains, birds about 'em, seamen p'inting 'em out as they go down with the tide.
You hain't seen that durn boy o' mine, have you?" "Why, yes; I seen him not long ago," said Sam. "He was p'inting right for home then." "H-m. Maybe I'll find him at the house." "Maybe you will." Then Sam added under his breath, "I don't think." So Burns left them, and a few minutes later Guy sneaked out of the woods to take a secondary part in the proceedings.
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