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Updated: June 26, 2025
Distant "neighbors" kept flocking in all day, each bringing a neighborly offering; fresh pork from the owner of an only shoat; choice venison steaks; bear meat from a hunter who explained that the bear had been killed months before and kept frozen in the meat house.
"A ha, my hearties," roared the leader, turning to his motley crew, "fine pickings here indeed. A swine of God fattened upon the sweat of such poor, honest devils as we, and a young shoat who, by his looks, must have pieces of gold in his belt.
A bull or boar is not to be mentioned as such in mixed company, but male-brute and male-hog are used as euphemisms. A female shoat is called a gilt. In the Smokies a toad is called a frog or a toad-frog, and a toadstool is a frog-stool. What the mountaineers call hemlock is the shrub leucothoe.
Howsomedever, Wood had told him he'd better make out to be friendly, and take just what happened to come along without asking no questions; and I reckon the shoat really meant, as well as he knowed how to, to do what he was told.
There was much commotion, the men pointing out the game and shouting excitedly, "See the wild boar!" otherwise I should not have known what was up, but now, looking in the indicated direction, I saw scudding over the plain what appeared to me to be nothing but a halfgrown black pig, or shoat.
"'I reckon I wouldn't sell this shoat, says he. 'If it was any other one I might. "'Why not this one? I asked, fearful that he might know something. "'Why, because, says he, 'it was the grandest achievement of my life. There ain't airy other man that could have done it.
Both lads adopted his suggestion instantly, and they were none too soon, for already they were getting dizzy. After a few long breaths, they were up, groping about once more in search of the stock. "Over to you right," called the Professor. "We've been there. They're not there at all," answered Ned. By this time the guide had dived into the cloud. "The stock has gone," they heard him shoat.
"How vary extraordinary, to soorrender the ceetadel without firing a shoat," said Cranstoun, who ever ready to fight as to eat, seemed rather disappointed at the issue, if one might judge from the lengthened visage with which he listened to these tidings. "Singular enough," added Captain Granville. "Did the Colonel hint at any cause for this sudden change of purpose, De Courcy."
"That's what he said," nodded Peter, carefully switching his navy plug to the opposite cheek before settling down to reply, "and sez I, 'Why, Martin, what d'ye want o' that there shoat? You ain't got nothin' to keep her on! 'If I can borrow the pig, sez he, 'I reckon I can borrow the feed somewheres. God knows, he'll find that ain't so plentiful, but he's got the right idea.
An' dad gin his cornsent ter Nate ter let me work a month an' better fur him, ter pay out'n debt fur the shoat." "What work be you-uns goin' ter do?" Birt had a strong impression, amounting to a conviction, that there was something behind all this, which he was slowly approaching. "Why," said Tim, in surprise, "hain't ye hearn bout'n Nate's new land what he hev jes' got 'entered' ez he calls it?
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