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"They have their good points," the Kentuckian agreed; "thar's nothin' sneakin' in the men up hyeh, an' thar an't any lengths to which a man won't go, to do what he thinks is the squar thing. You've heard about the Beaupoints?" "No," the boy answered, "what was that?"
As she stepped forward Mr. Buck called out, "Als'on!" "Yes, moster," Alston answered. "What yer sneakin' in that thar' corner fer? Come up yere, you " but his vile sentence shall not be finished here. Alston came forward with a statuesque face. "Take this rawhide," was the order he received.
Jerrie Crawford! and Peterkin's big feet came down from the back of the chair on which they were resting, upsetting the chair and his brandy at the same time. 'Jerrie Crawford! I swow! A gal without a cent, or name either, though I used to have a sneakin' notion that I knew who she was, but I guess I didn't. 'Twould have come out afore now. What under heavens put her into your noddle?
"You are sure you saw him go toward the house?" "Yes, that was plain enough, although he seemed to be sneakin' along the bushes." "Was it the same man?" "It must have been, but I couldn't see his valise, because he was behind the bushes." "How did the man look?" "He was a putty heavy fellow and he was dressed in a light gray suit and wore a soft hat to match."
What do you mean by sneakin' in here and tappin' on a fellow's shoulder like a damn' woodpecker, by Jove! I don't know you." There was in Colonel Musgrave's voice a curious tremor, when he spoke; but to the eye he was unruffled, even faintly amused. "I am the owner of this garden," he enunciated, with leisurely distinctness, "and it is not my custom to permit gentlewomen to be insulted in it.
If I could let you go to the dogs without worryin' about it, I'd do it quick enough; but I've got a miserable, sneakin' old conscience that won't stand right up and make me do right, like a man; but when I want to do some thin' mean it begins a gnawin' and a gnawin' at me till I have to do what I oughter for the sate of a little peace and comfort. A-a-h!"
"`That's Miffy, says I, feelin' quite excited, for I'd got to have a sneakin' sort o' pity for the miserable critter. `It's a twin roar to the one he gave that day when he mistook Hairy Sam for a grizzly b'ar, an' went up a spruce-fir like a squirrel. Sure enough, in another moment Miffy burst out o' the woods an' came tearin' across the open space straight for the gap, followed by a dozen or more savages.
""I regyards this event as a vict'ry for Jackson an' principle," says my grandfather, as he's called on to proceed with his oration, "an' I'd like to say in that connection, if Henry Clay will count his spoons when he next comes sneakin' home from Washin'ton, he'll find he's short Spence Witherspoon."
Hit's as fair for one as 'tis for t'other. When a revenuer comes sneakin' around, why, whut he gits, or whut we-uns gits, that's a 'fortune of war, as the old sayin' is." There is no telegraph, wired or wireless, in the mountains, but there is an efficient substitute.
He happened upon me quite sudden, when he was sneakin' round ter git past where you was busy fellin' that tree. I'd seen his shadder 'fore he knew I was thar at the bench. No, Abe, he won't hurt the dog. I've a notion he's gone right away." "Leavin' no proof that he's the man that tried ter kill Kiddie," added Abe. "Wait till the hound comes along," said Rube; "then we shall have proof.
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