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Till now he had found no time to get nervous, but as the minutes passed he began to tremble violently and to whimper. In spite of his experience he was only a boy and until to-day had never killed a man. "Doggone it, if I ain't done gone an' got buck fever," he reproached himself. "I reckon it's because Billie Prince ain't here that I'm so scairt.
We got to the tavern at Chateaugay about dusk, and put up for the night, as becomes a Christian. Next afternoon we came to rough roads again, camping at sundown along the shore of a noisy brook. The dog began to bark fiercely while supper was making, and scurried off into a thicket. D'ri was stooping over, cooking the meat. He rose and listened. "Thet air dog's a leetle scairt," said he.
"And the red deer and glens and things it must be lovely." "A've seen graund pictures of a glen," admitted Tam, "but the red deer in Glascae air no' sae plentifu' as they used to be A'm thinkin' the shipyard bummer hae scairt 'em away." She shot a sharp glance at him, then, it seemed for the first time, noticed his stripes. "Oh, you're a sergeant," she said.
"Humph, no I'se not gwine ter go near no hainted house, much less stay in one. I'se scairt. "Hee, hee, sho you can find things by spitting in yer han and de way the spit goes if youse will go dar you will be sho to find hit. "Aint got no time for fortune tellers, don believe in dem, day don't do nuthin.
Started t' stike a match an' the man said don't make no light cos I don't want to hev ye see my face. Never let nobody see my face. Said he never went out 'less 'twas a dark night until folks was abed. Said we looked like good folks. Scairt me a little cos we couldn't see a thing. Also he said don't be 'fraid of me. Do what I can fer ye.
Pretty soon the old fellow began to talk. "'My women-folks sent for you, did they? I suspicioned they had. Fact, I was slim this mornin'; took slim suddin, whilest I was milkin'. Didn't relish my victuals, and that scairt the woman. But I took my physic, and, come afternoon, I was spryer 'n a steer agin. "'What is your physic, if I may ask, Mr. Butters? "'Woodpile! says the old fellow.
A little higher and he was out of sight of his friends below. The danger began to appal him; he wanted to go back, and to justify the retreat he tried to call out, "No Coon here!" but his voice failed him, and, as he clung to the branch, he remembered Caleb's words, "There's nothing ahead of grit, an' grit ain't so much not bein' scairt as it is goin' straight ahead when you are scairt."
Everybody has turned in to repair damages, and, perhaps, afterwards to sleep. The Commodore is studying the charts on the dining-room table, and the captain, an American, has just put his head in at the door and said: "She's sailing twelve knots an hour under just the fores'l, sir, and she's running like a scairt dog."
"'On th' double!" remarked Slavin observantly. "Must have got scairt!" "Ah!" murmured the coroner, reflectively, "though the Bible doesn't expressly state so, I guess Cain, too, got on the 'double' as you call it after he killed Abel." They finally reached the coulee where the tracks, debouching from the steep edge, passed along its rim and presently descended the more shallow end of the draw.
"Well, you see I know a little bit about wimmen. An' I seen this woman oncet. If she was one of these here newfangled political kind you couldn't do nothin' with her, she'd be onta you in no time an' have you up before the supreme court 'fore she goddone, but this here woman is one o' them old fashioned, useless kind that's afraid of everything and cries easy, and gets scairt at her shadder.
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