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"Whyn't you-uns go?" demanded Barney, surprised. "The wind war blowin' so powerful brief," Nick replied without a qualm. "So I jes' s'arched fur a while in the woods back thar a piece." In a moment more, Barney rose to his feet, picked up his coat, and put it on. He did not notice the torn place, for the garment was old and worn, and had many ragged edges.
Travellin' Centres, and stationary, differs somewhat, I guess; one is always to be found, while t'other must be s'arched a'ter." "And pray who are Dolly and Blossom; I hope the last is not a WHISKEY blossom?" "Not she she never touches a spoonful, though I tell her it never hurt mortal!
"Ye know, too, that he thinks he has played the same game with me; but ye don't know, I reckon, that he had ole Jim Stover 'n' that mis'able Eli Crump a-hidin' in the bushes to shoot me" again he grasped the torn lapel; "that a body warned me to git away from Hazlan; n' the night I left home they come thar to kill me, 'n' s'arched the house, 'n' skeered Mollie n' the leetle gal 'most to death."
I s'arched the ground over I headed the band of scouts who found him remember that! Nobody had been near the lick but Jonas. There wasn't a footmark for rods around. Even an Injin couldn't have got near enough to strike Jonas down with his gun-butt " "You believe that wound on his head, then, was made by no deer's antler?" exclaimed Enoch, eagerly. "Tut, tut!
"Ef airy man had undertook hit," she responded gravely, "they'd most likely hev kilt him first an' s'arched him 'atterwards." Bud had dropped down on a step of the stile that led from the road to the yard. His heavy lidded eyes were full of weariness and pain. His limp arm sagged but he said slowly: "Thet's why I run away, Mr. Brent. I had to.
He's far enough away by this time, for we s'arched the place round fur miles, and we took in that theer wood where we just see un. 'We never s'arched th' wood, says Dick, 'leastways, not proper, an' it's a rare hidin' place for un. 'So it be, to be sure, says I. 'If he sees that there light we'll be browt out from heer dead men, says Dick.
"Here I be," said the scout and trapper. "What happened to you?" "S'arched an' shoved me into a dark hole in the wall. Ye know, Jack, with you an' me, it allus 'pears to be workin'." "What?" "Good luck. Cur'us thing the papers was on you 'stid of me ayes, sir, 'twas. Did ye hand 'em over safe?" "Last night I put 'em in Franklin's hands." "Hunkidory! I'm ready fer to go hum." "Not yet I hope.
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