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"Don't you be skeart, but just you trust to me. That's your sort," he cried, as he passed the rope round her, and knotted it. "Now then, you'll just take a tight grip of the rope there with both hands, and trust to me, just as if I was going to give you a swing." "I'll trust you, Hampton," she said, with a quiet smile. "That's right, miss; you'll be like a baby in my arms.
"But was too skeart to call, till we'd quit shootin'!" said Tom. "But come, boys, let's be stirrin', else they'll git together like; they keeps drawin', drawin', into one place now, I can hear."
Although jest one minnit afore, I wur putty nigh skeart out o' my seven senses, that sight made me larf till I wur like to bring on a colic. "Thur wur the bar wi' his head right a-through the blanket. One minnit, he 'ud rear up on his hind-feet, an' then the thing hung roun' him like a Mexikin greaser.
"But you're not going to try again, are you?" "Not going to try again? I should think I am, till I get the great ugly creature here at the top. Why, you're not skeart of him, are you?" "Wait till he's out, and then we'll see," I replied, as I thrust the pole down again, giving it a fierce twist, and felt it seized once more. "That's the way.
I didn't say nuffin' for fear ob scaring ob you. 'Oh! git out, says I, 'you's skeart. But I felt a little oneasy myself, 'cause I kind ob fought I heern somefin' when we was a little furder off.
"But I tell you I am all right now," cried Rodd angrily, and he darted a fierce look at the speaker. "Of course you are, youngster; but you felt a bit skeart again, and 'nough to make you." "Yes," said Rodd sharply, "I did feel startled for a moment, but it's all gone now. Come on, uncle; I have got the glass;" and the boy made a dash for the cabin stairs.
Den dar come a yell dat nearly blowed de roof off de house. Big Mose gib a screech and run, and bang-bang went a lot ob guns all around us. De Injines was dar, burnin', tomahawkin', screechin', shoutin', and killin' de poor niggers as fast as dey showed demselves. I see'd Miss Mary " "Did they harm her?" "No! She didn't 'pear skeart a bit.
"I say, Master Aleck." "Eh? Yes, Tom." "I've been a-thinking that as a reg'lar thing I'm a bit skeart o' the captain. He's such a fierce, cut-you-off-short sort of a gentleman that I'm always glad to get away when I've been up to the Den to do anything for yer pitching the boat's bottom or mending holes, or overhauling the tackle; but I tell you what "
I telled you I was as bad as bad could be, and my hair stood right up on end leastwise, it felt as if it did; and I can tell you this: I didn't feel like that when we were going into action, and that's saying a good deal, when a fellow didn't know whether the first sixty-four pounder that was fired wouldn't send its shot right into his chest. And so you felt regular skeart, did you, sir?"
This comes of settling a country! he said. Here have I known the pigeon to fly for forty long years, and, till you made your clearings, there was nobody to skeart or to hurt them, I loved to see them come into the woods, for they were company to a body, hurting nothing being, as it was, as harmless as a garter-snake.
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