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Updated: May 12, 2025
'Don't you be skeared, old man, says she, 'I shan't cost you none; your betters pays for I. So says Giles, 'Oh, if you falls on squire, I don't vally that; squire's back is broad enough to bear the load, but I'm a poor man. That's how a' goes on, ye know.
"No, sir; I shouldn't have been skeared o' any serpent. It was a great big Injun who had a lot o' greasy white snakes swinging about all round his head, and he'd got his club ready to hit me. Ever so big, he was." "That chap's telling a big lie," said Briscoe coolly, "only he thinks he's telling the truth.
I was jest goin' to speak, when I seed thar was three fellers in the boat; an' afore I could ax myself what that meant, one of the hounds that Don had with him set up a yelp. I knowed that meant business, an' it skeared me so't I didn't think of nothin' only how to get off'n that thar island without bein' diskivered.
"Well, the sound increased and increased so, like young thunder she was e'en a'most skeared to death, and in a twitteration all over; and her knees began to shake so, she expected to go for it every minute; when a sudden turn of the path show'd her her husband and the poor squatter a sarchin' for her.
"Well, the sound increased and increased so, like young thunder she was e'en a'most skeared to death, and in a twitteration all over; and her knees began to shake so, she expected to go for it every minute; when a sudden turn of the path show'd her her husband and the poor squatter a sarchin' for her.
I asked the good wife how she felt while the Southern army was marching past her doors, "Well," she said, "I wasn't greatly skeared, only I thought I'd pull down the new parlor-curtains; but they behaved right well, and didn't meddle with nothin' to signify; not like them Yankees, who are always pickin' and stealin'. But I'd like to get right out of this country, anyhow; we'll never do no good here while the war lasts."
It was necessary to put an end to this, and Jaap was ordered to prepare our packs, in readiness for the expected march. Relieved from his presence, Susquesus was asked to be more explicit. "You know Injin," the Onondago answered. "Now he t'ink red-coats driv' away and skeared, he go look for scalp.
'Give them to that tall young fellow, says Squire, 'as you posted by the Decoy Pond, for he knows how to use his fists. Why, that 'ere chap as you had the tussle with was Carew hisself!" A deadly paleness overspread the young man's cheeks. "Was that Carew?" he said. "Yes, indeed, it was; though none of us know'd it. You needn't look so skeared.
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