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Let me tell yer, Mister Gilt Buttons, I don't 'low any man white, black, or Injun to enter my clarin' 'ithout fust knowin' his reezun. Ye hear that, d'ye?" "Your clearing! Are you sure it is yours?" The squatter turned red upon the instant.
They are the names o' two great toons, a lang way up the kintry, Timbuctoo and Sockatoo. They are negro toons: an' for that reezun I ha'e a suspeshun my master's bound to one or other o' the two ports." "But why do you think that we are to be taken elsewhere?" demanded Harry Blount.
"By procurin' her promise; getting betrothed, as they call it." "There can be no harm in that. Certainly not." "Wal, I'm gled you think so; for I've sot my traps for the thing, an' baited 'em too. Thet air's part o' my reezun for askin' ye out hyar. She's gin me the promise o' a meetin' 'mong these cotton woods, an' may kum at any minnit.
I told her so, the next time I seed her; an' she 'peared pleased 'bout my not havin' her ta'en up. She said it war generous of the White Eagle that's the name her people gies me for thar's a gang o' them still livin' down the crik. She gin me a sort of promise she wouldn't trouble me agin; but I warn't sure o' her. That's the reezun, stranger, I didn't want ye to go fur away."
It is but the common destiny of man." "Well, stranger, it's been myen; an' I've hed reezun to be sorry for it. But it's no use tryin' to shet up the stable arter the hoss's been stole out o't. She are gone now; an' that's the end o' it. I reckon I'll niver set eyes on her agin."
See them two letters in the stock thar `WW. Old Nat Cully hez good reezun to recconise them, since 'twas hisself that cut 'em. I did it for Walt two yeern ago, when we war scoutin' on the Collyrado. It's his weepun, an' no mistake." "Where did you find it?" inquires the captain.
"The Indians on this route were reported friendly. Why have they attacked us, I wonder?" "Injuns ain't niver friendly not Tenawas. They've been riled considerably of late by the Texans on the Trinity. Besides, I reck'n I kin guess another reezun. It's owin' to some whites as crossed this way last year.
I had conceived a suspicion pointing to Su-wa-nee but without being able to attribute to the Indian any motive for the act. "No, no!" replied my comrade, in answer to my interrogatory on this head: "'twar Holt hisself, sartin. He culdn't take the old hoss along wi' him, an' he didn't want anybody else to git him. Besides, the girl hedn't no reezun to a did it.
While Hamersley is still smiling at the grotesque prognostication, the ex-Ranger, seizing hold of his hand, continues, "I'm so glad you're a goin' to rekiver. Leavin' out the angels we love, ther'll be some chance to git square wi' the devils we've sech reezun to hate. We may yit make them pay dear for the bloody deed they've done in the murderin' o' our innercent companyuns."
"Shure yez did, didn't ye?" "No-o-o; neer a bit o' 't. It keemd nigh breakin' us." "Arrah, how?" "We-ell! ye see, when we got roun' to Orleens, we learnt that the boot-trade hed a'most stopped. The allygator leather didn't turn out jest the thing for brogans; an' besides, it got sca'ce by reezun o' the killin' o' them verming.
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