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He merely acted from an inevitable devotion to the laws of life; and however often they might prove him right, he never seemed to reason that Amelia was consequently wrong. Perhaps that was what made it so pleasant to live with him. It was "easy sleddin'" now. Amelia grew very young. Her cheeks gained a bloom, her eyes brightened. She even, as the matrons noticed, took to crimping her hair.
"Who's ther kid?" "Thet boy is my grandson. We come outer Missouri ter see what could be did in this yere new country, an' it's mighty hard sleddin'." "What's ther trouble?" "Well, stranger, so long ez yer kind ernuff ter inquire, I'll tell yer." "I'm listenin'." "I'm too old ter work at ther only thing what seems ter be out yere cow-punchin' an' ther kiddie is too young.
"And it be a Christmas gift!" continued the old man. "It looks so," returned Bill, as laconically as before. "And it be a mighty heavy box!" said the Trapper. "You'd 'a' thought so, if you had dragged it over the mile-and-a-half carry. It was good sleddin' on the river, but the carry took the stuff out of me."
I guess it's pretty hard sleddin' for her sometimes to get clo'es and grub for the famerly, without follerin' Bob around." "Sharp girls, too, I reckon; one of them writes things for the magazines, doesn't she? Cynthia, eh?" said Mr. Hamlin, carelessly. Evidently this fact was not a notorious one to the barkeeper.
We ain't goin' to have real nice weather till the up-country snow's all gone." "I heard say yesterday that there was good sleddin' yet, all up through Parsley," responded Miss Wright. "I shouldn't like to live in them northern places.
She relieved him of his coat. He walked over to the couch upon which Onistah lay. "How goes it? Tough sleddin'?" he asked. The bronze face of the Blackfoot was immobile. He must still have been in great pain from the burnt feet, but he gave no sign of it. "Onistah find good friends," he answered simply. Tom looked round the room, and again there came to him the sense of home.
An' he wants you as bad as I do. As I said, we've got a week or more to get acquainted. It will be a week that may take us through some mighty tough sleddin', but that ain't goin' to help you none in choosin', because neither one of us will break an' you can bet your last stack of blue ones on that." The girl's lips were pressed very tight, and for some moments she rode in silence.
Ripley sat up straight and stiff as "a half-drove wedge in a white-oak log." The day was cold and raw. There was some snow on the ground, but not enough to warrant the use of sleighs. It was "neither sleddin' nor wheelin'." The old people sat on a board laid across the box, and had an old quilt or two drawn up over their knees.
It was an understood thing among us, when Sam was in his teens, that he should at least enter the Senate; perhaps he would even be President, and scatter offices, like halfpence, among his scampering townsmen. But to-day he patiently does his haying by hand! and "goes sleddin'" in the winter.
I had gone down post-haste to my well-beloved Tiverton, in response to the news sent me by a dear countrywoman, that Nancy Boyd, whom I had not seen since my long absence in Europe, was dying of "galloping consumption." Nancy wanted to bid me good-by. Hiram Cole met me, lean-jawed, dust-colored, wrinkled as of old, with the overalls necessitated by his "sleddin'" at least four inches too short.
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