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The bear had continued to cling to the squealing and kicking shote, for bruin is a strangely perverse and obstinate creature, unwilling to give up what he has once set his mind upon. There was a wild shriek of agony from the poor pig and when the bear moved clumsily away still clinging to the porker there was a broad trail of blood on the snow. "I shot him!
The dinner was excellent barbecued mutton and shote and lamb and squirrels, and very fine "gumbo," and plenty of vegetables and watermelons and fruits, and fresh fish which the negroes had caught in the seine, for none of the anglers had been successful.
So being very weary, they betooke them to rest. But about midnight they heard a hideous & great crie, and their sentinall caled, "Arme, arme"; so they bestired them & stood to their armes, & shote of a cupple of moskets, and then the noys seased.
With a demi-volt or backward somersault it hurled itself into the jungle whence it had come with a terrific roar of alarm, and its tail undoubtedly though not evidently between its legs! Heaving a deep, long-drawn sigh, the professor stood up and wiped his forehead. Then he listened intently. "A shote, if mine ears deceive me not!" he said, and listened again. He was right.
You pulled on him just as if he was a three-hundred pound shote. It was funny as all time!" But Bradley had trouble in going to sleep that night, thinking about it. He was wondering what She would have thought of him in that disgraceful row. He tried to remember whether he swore or not.
"Ef Primus had 'a' knowed whose shote dat wuz, he 'd 'a' manage' ter git pas' it somehow er 'nudder. Ez it happen', de shote b'long ter a cunjuh man w'at libbed down in de free-nigger sett'ement. Co'se de cunjuh man did n' hab ter wuk his roots but a little w'ile 'fo' he foun' out who tuk his shote, en den de trouble begun.
Smith and I had separated late in the afternoon, and I was hunting with an old Chinese when we discovered three pigs a huge boar, a sow, and a shote crossing an open hill. Crawling on my face, I reached a rock not seventy yards from the animals. At the first shot the boar pitched over the bluff into a tangle of thorns, squealing wildly.
He sat with a ridiculously contented look on his face, smoking a small briar pipe, and he laughed outright as I circled his mud-hole and came to a stop opposite the car with its nose poked deep down in the mire, for all the world like a rooting shote. "Good morning, Diana," he said, quite coolly, as he removed his battered-looking cap.
En dat's de reason, Brer Pete, I sont fer you ter fetch dat mule down here. You 'member dat shote I was up ter yo' plantation inquirin' 'bout las' June? "'Yas, says Brer Pete, 'I'member yo' axin' 'bout a shote you had los'. "'I dunno whe'r you eber l'arnt it er no, says de cunjuh man, 'but I done knowed yo' marster's Primus had tuk de shote, en I wuz boun' ter git eben wid 'im.
"One man bunged, and four to lug him home, and the rest of the crew taking a sympathetic vacation!" Farr, sauntering, swung off the highway down the lane leading to the temporary bridge. "Here, you long-horned steer, want a job?" called the contractor from his rostrum on the granite block. "No, my Sussex shote, I do not!" "Damnation! You dare to call me names, you hobo?"
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