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"So ye see," said the farmer a man named Nicholls despondently, "he's som'eres skulkin' around hyar." "Seems like it," acquiesced Scipio. Then, of a sudden, a suspicion flashed through the other's mind, and the man-hunter spent an uncomfortable few seconds. "Say, you're lookin' fer him?" the farmer questioned harshly. Then he leant forward, his eyes lighting with sudden anger.
It sends 'em to the deep-sea with a message to the fish, an the message is `come out o' the water you skulkin' critters, an' be sent up to Billin'sgate to be sold an' eaten! The fish don't come willin'ly, I'm bound for to say that, but we make 'em come all the same, willin' or not, for we've wonderful powers o' persuasion.
The skipper, chastened by suffering and disappointment, stuck his right hand in his pocket, after a lengthened search for it, and gently bidding the blanketed urchin in front of him to sit down, began: "You see what comes of drink and cards," he said mournfully. "Instead of being at the helm of my ship, racing all the other craft down the river, I'm skulkin' down below here like like"
"There's no tellin' how soon we may run agin the sneaks. We can't hunt here. Like as not there's Hurons and Delawares skulkin' round. I think I'd better take you back to the village." "It's all on my account you say that," said Joe. "Sure," Wetzel replied. "If you were alone what would you do?" "I calkilate I'd hunt fer some red-skinned game." The supreme moment had come. Joe's heart beat hard.
Hank sent the Sea Hound zooming toward the surface while the boys changed quickly into slacks and T shirts. Then Tom took over the controls for the flight home. "Brand my vitamin vittles! Are we just goin' to turn tail an' run every time them varmints come skulkin' around?" Chow fumed as the seacopter arrowed northward. "Not if I can help it," Tom vowed.
"One night we cum onto half a dozen fellows skulkin' in de woods, an' at fust dey made fight, but d'rectly dey know'd we was friends, fur dey was some more Linkum sojers, an' dey'd lost dere way, or ruther, dey know'd where dey was, but dey didn't know how to git way from dere.
"By dad, we wor a great dale longer anyhow than he towld me he was." "To be sure we wor," said Barny; "he wint skulkin' in by the short cut, I tell you, and was afeard to keep a bowld offin' like me. But come, boys, let uz take a dhrop o' the bottle o' sper'ts we got out o' the brig.
Now d'ye ondhershtand who's masther, ye idle, skulkin', schamin', disrespictable baste?" Misther Henay was favourably disposed towards the Protestant settlers of Dugort, but another Sounder was very bitter indeed. "A set of Soupers an' Jumpers an' Double-Jumpers. What's the manin' iv it ye ask? Soupers is Catholics that's turned Protestants for the sake of small pickin's sich as soup.
"I'spect they got wind of somebody; most likely thet guide, an'll be back again. If they ain't, it's because they got switched off by some signs or tokens, skeered, perhaps, by the scent of the wind." Hardly had he ceased speaking when again the circle of light was invaded by stalking forms. "I thought so! Here comes the skulkin' varmints," whispered the teamster. But he was wrong.
"Me aim's unsartin to-day," was the reply. "I don't allus miss like that." "But why did you shoot, anyway? The Indian was doing us no harm." "He was skulkin' around, though, an' I jist gave him a hint to move along." "So you didn't intend to shoot him?" "Oh, no. It was merely a hint, as I told ye." "A queer hint, I should say," and Reynolds laughed. "Manners of the wilderness, I suppose?" "Sure.
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