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Molly noticed her mother's heightening color and her quivering nostrils and remembered with a smile what Aunt Mary, their old cook, always said to them when they were children: "Ole Miss is long suffrin' an' slow to anger but when her nose gits to wuckin', you chillun ought to learn that she done had 'nuf and you had better make yo'sefs scurse." Peace-loving Molly drew Mrs.
They generally don't get down on to the Arkansas till about September, and when they're scurse the wolves and coyotes are mighty sassy, and will steal a piece of bacon rind right out of the pan, if you don't watch 'em. So we picketed our ponies a little closer before we turned in, and we all went to sleep except one, who sort o' kept watch on the stock.
"Settle up them scores byme-by; fightin' Christians is scurse raound here. Fire away, Dick." "Well, we got as hungry as hounds half a dozen mile from home, and when a farmhouse hove in sight, Joe said he 'd ask for a bite, and leave some of the plunder for pay. I was visitin' Joe, didn't know folks round, and backed out of the beggin' part of the job; so he went ahead alone.
"We'd been kind o' scurse of fresh meat for a couple of weeks ever since we left the Platte except a jack-rabbit or cottontail, and I knowed the boys would be wanting to get a quarter or two of a good fat cow, if we could find one in the herd, so that was the reason I pointed 'em out to 'em.
"Settle up them scores byme-by; fightin' Christians scurse raound here. Fire away, Dick." "Well, we got as hungry as hounds half a dozen mile from home, and when a farm-house hove in sight, Joe said he'd ask for a bite and leave some of the plunder for pay. I was visitin' Joe, didn't know folks round, and backed out of the beggin' part of the job; so he went ahead alone.
His emotion was so great that his voice refused to carry it, and so was flat and as expressionless as his commonplace face. "Well," gurgled the young man, sluicing down his food with coffee, "it's pretty hard to figure exactly. I've got a good little shack, you see, and there's a spring right close handy by. Springs is sure worth money in that country, water being scurse as it is.
"The wolves howled considerable, and come pretty close to the fire for the bacon rinds we'd throwed away after supper. "You see the buffalo was scurse right thar then it was the wrong time o' year.
We pulled for life or death, and that brave head kep' risin' on the wave. "Ef we could 'a' had another minute afore the next sweel come! George Olver felt it. He sent the rope out with a giant's throw. Then it was all and more than we could do to held the boat ag'in the wind. It come so fast ye scurse could see them next ye in the boat.
But when thar' come a half lull so't we could see, and we looked out and seen him risin' on the wave, grippin' that other one, in spite o' hope I scurse believed my eyes, and what a shout they sent up from that boat! "Ay, thar' they was, for sure, but God, how fur away! Not much for common weather, but then they looked as fur to me as 'arth from heaven.
"Don't you want to make the box first?" said Ned. "Reckon not. 'Druther see the manatee 'fore I spile good lumber. Manatees is mighty scurse in this country." Dick flared up, and said to the fisherman: "Do you mean that we've been lying about a manatee?"
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