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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Who are you shooting at?" "I'm after two men," was the hired man's reply. "They jest run into the cornfield." "Chicken thieves?" queried Tom. "I guess so anyway they was prowlin' around the hen house an' the barn. I called an' asked 'em what they wanted and they ran for dear life so I knew they was up to no good." "They certainly must have been chicken thieves, or worse," was Sam's comment.
He was awful good ter animals an' kids. He had a pet ermine that 'ud come in ter see him every night in his cabin, an' he wouldn't let Mart an' some o' the fellers set a trap fer the red mother fox that was prowlin' round the place t' git somethin' fer her babies. Said he'd make trap-bait fer bears o' the first feller that tried t' git 'er." "Excellent idea."
"No, sir; all these doors was standin' wide open, and this Johnny Reb was prowlin' 'round in here. I didn't know what his business might be so I collared him. Ain't that right, Murphy?" appealing to the soldier at the window, who had faced about at sound of our voices. "Straight as far as it goes," was the reply, "but maybe that guard back in the ell saw the lady afore we come up." "What guard?"
Next year she guarded it herself some nights, sleepin' by day, an' oncet she took a shot at some one that come prowlin' around. They let her fence alone after that, but what'd they do outside? Killed all th' hogs we had one night an' piled 'em in a heap in th' front door yard!
She set her pole to the ground and vaulted over the high picket-fence, like an athlete. "Well," she said, "if I'd ha' been shy o' you, Mr. Gilbert, you wouldn't ha' seen me. I'm not one of them as goes prowlin' around among dead bodies' bones at midnight; what I want, I looks for in the daytime." "Bones?" he asked. "You're surely not digging up the Hessians?"
"I thought as much," replied the head cowboy, with a chuckle. "Believe me, I wouldn't trust Levine out o' my sight, if I was the boss. I've seen him prowlin' around here several times." "Then you think he has some secret motive in getting hold of the ranch?" "Sure as shootin'. That feller is a bad one take it from me." "Please don't make too much noise around here," went on Allen.
This opportunity was much increased by Spike's hailing him, while on the yard, and ordering him to take a good look at the sloop-of-war, and at the same time to ascertain if any boats were "prowlin' about, in order to make a set upon us in the night."
Me wife's cross-eyed, or she'd 'a' never married me. I was tin years prowlin' up an' down the earth seekin' a woman. But I couldn't catch one. She'd 'a' got away from me if she could 'a' seed straight." Kate laughed and ushered in a young woman with blond hair and an ill-fitting dress. She walked as in a dream, and there was a strange look in her eye.
"I wish for nothing in the name of the devil," was the simple answer. "But in the name of God, I ask for a roof." "That buck with you?" The squint-eyed man shut the door behind him as he pointed at Squaw Charley. "No; he lives in the stockade yonder." "Oh! He's the one that goes prowlin' 'round here day an' night, sneakin' an' stealin'!"
"Nick Undrell's bin seen prowlin' around this yer camp a good deal lately since you've bin away on your trip, Kiddie. I'm kind o' suspicious that he ain't spying around for no good. Seems he's bin making friends with that big dog, too." "With Sheila?" Kiddie started upright in his seat. "By the way, where is she? I haven't seen or heard her since we came back.
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