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He was skinnin' a lion then, over hyar on the ridge. Thet was in the mawnin'. I reckon he's around, fer I seen some of the hounds." "Then, Lem you haven't heard about the fight yesterday between Jack and Wilson Moore?" Lem straightened up quickly. "Nope, I 'ain't heerd a word." "Well, they fought, all right," said Columbine, hurriedly. "I saw it. I was the only one there.
Durn me, but I took a piece of his hide from one of his skinnin' posts an' had it made into a pocket-book. It's here now! and he slapped the breast pocket of his coat. Whilst he was speaking the cat was continuing her frantic efforts to get up the wall. She would take a run back and then charge up, sometimes reaching an incredible height.
We all of us would give the first ten years of our life to know what it's like out yonder; when he was here, ol' Monody would 'a' done anything he could for me, well, he lay down his life an' I reckon that's about skinnin' the deck, but here I was achin' to know how it was with him, an' there he was with all his guesses answered, an' him not able to pass back a single tip to me.
"I've never wronged nobody, nor done much prayin', an' when the Almighty calls me I think I'll stand jest as good a chance o' gittin' a harp as those who's done more on't. The worst skinnin' I ever got was done by this ere lawyer who never sot down to meals 'thout askin' a blessin', an' mebbe that's the reason I'm a scoffer.
The "black knob" was discernible, there was no mistake: barn doors broken off, fences burnt up, glass out of windows; more white crops than green, and both lookin' poor and weedy; no wood pile, no sarse garden, no compost, no stock; moss in the mowin lands, thistles in the ploughed lands, and neglect every where; skinnin' had commenced takin' all out and puttin' nothin' in gittin' ready for a move, SO AS TO HAVE NOTHIN' BEHIND. Flittin' time had come.
He knew what he wanted to do with his valley, and had perfect confidence he should accomplish it. But he had no disposition to hasten matters unwisely. It was better, as he told Sam Kettleman, the grocer, "to let an apple fall in your lap instead of skinnin' your shins goin' up the tree after it and then findin' it was green."
But we likes thumping on the head not skinning it." "That your fashion my fashion take scalp. You thump; I skin which best?" "Augh! skinnin' is a dreadthful operation; but shillaleh-work comes nately and nat'rally. How many of these said scalps, now, may ye have picked up, Nick, in yer last journey?" "T'ree all man and woman no pappoose. One big enough make two; so call him four." "Oh!
Up to then they had always called this piece 'Shoats in the Corn, but after that they called it 'Skinnin' your Shins. Go ahead, Vangy." Then he played "Skinnin' your Shins," and after that "Rocky Road to Jordan," "Way up to Tar Creek," "A Sly Wink at Me," "All a Time a Goin' with the High Toned Gals," and a lot more that I can't remember, and between every piece he'd tell a story.
Presently he exclaimed in surprise and he passed his fingers over it as though searching for something. "Where was it shot, Kate? I don't find nothin' but this cut that looks like his knife slipped when he was skinnin'." "It was a knife that killed it." "What!" "Don't ask me about it; I see the picture of it in my dreams still. The lion had dragged the trap into a cave and Bart followed it.
"'It isn't a question of cost, said he, pulling out a cucumber and skinnin' much money off the top of it. 'You take that and secure what we need. "'I'll do what's right by you, says I, and meant it. That afternoon the Rev. Percival Mervin and Mr. E. G. W. Scraggs pulled out with a team of mules for parts unknown.
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