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When the council was over we put our heads together, and just went through the township a-talking to the women, and we hadn't much difficulty in getting up such a skear among 'em that before nightfall every one of 'em in the farms around made their husbands move into the stockade of the village.
Git off my bed, else look another way; them eyes o' yourn skear me. I was sitting on the side of her bed and looking into her face. 'Where did you get this? I said, holding out the letter. 'You skears me, a-lookin' like that, said she. 'I comed by it 'onest.
He b'lieves in ghosts, anyhow, an' could give us a yarn about 'em, I knows, if he likes. Come along now, Tim, like a good fellow." "Ay, that's it," cried Briant; "give us a stiff 'un now. Don't be afeard to skear us, old boy."
"The less you talks to her," I sez, "the better you'll get on with her," I sez, "and the better kind o' pictur you'll make out on her," I sez to the shiny un; "an' don't you go an' arst who her father is," I sez, "for that word 'ull bring such a horful look on her face," I sez, "as is enough to skear anybody to death. I sha'n't forget the look the fust time I seed it," I sez.
'Lucky as I didn't leave the front door open to-night, as I mostly do. What do you want to skear a pore woman for? she bawled. 'Go away, else I'll call up the people in Great Queen Street. 'Mrs. Gudgeon, all I want to do is to ask you a question. 'Ah, but that's what you jis' won't do, my fine gentleman. I don't let you in again in a hurry. 'I will give you a sovereign.
"Only laughs a little at ghost dat all, sir." "Laugh at ghost! Is that a subject to laugh at? Have a care, you black rascal, or he will visit you in your galley here, when you will least want to see him." "No care much for him, sir," returned Simon, laughing away as hard as ever. "Sich a ghost ought n't to skear little baby." "Such a ghost? And what do you know of this ghost more than any other?"
I tell you what, Dick, I'm not the man to skear at a raw-head-and-bloody-bones; but I do think the coming of this here cursed Jibbenainosay among us, jist as we was nabbing the girl and sodger, was as much as to say there was no good could come of it; and so the Injuns thought too you saw how hard it was to bring 'em up to the scratch, when they found he had been knifing a feller right among 'em!
"You must prove where it come from, Deerslayer, or we shall suspect some design to skear them that would have lost their wits long ago, if fear could drive 'em away." Deerslayer had approached a window, and cast a glance out of it on the dark aspect of the lake. As if satisfied with what he beheld, he drew near Hurry, and took the bundle of sticks into his own hand, examining it attentively.
"When I clomb the hill agin, the bar wur still out on the parairy, an' I cud see that the blanket wur a-hanging around 'im. Howsomdever, he wur makin' off torst the hills, thinkin', maybe, he'd hed enuf o' my kumpny. "I wan't a-gwine to let 'im off so easy, for the skear he hed 'gin me; besides, he wur traillin' my Mackinaw along wi' 'im.
The latter remained motionless a few moments, before they realized that it was coining after them, and then, wheeling about, they ran as though all the legions of darkness were after them. 'Shall I keep it up? shouted Johnny in the ear of the hunter. 'Yas; give 'em such a skear that they won't be able to git over it ag'in in all thar lives.
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