skootched

Updated: June 17, 2025

I put Jack erbout fifty feet further up the trail than I were, an' Buckeye nigh him, an' tol 'em what to do. We skootched down in the bushes an' heerd 'em comin'! Purty soon they hove in sight two Injuns, the two wimmin captives an' a white man the wust-lookin' bulldog brute that I ever seen stumpin' erlong lively on a wooden leg, with a gun an' a cane.

Irving Bacheller - In the Days of Poor Richard