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Williams Chub, I mean, it's only justice, and to save the poor young gentleman's life. I'm sure I oughtn't to be afraid, and no more I a'n't. Won't you go there with me, Chub?" "Can't think of it, strannger. Guy is a dark man, and mother said I must keep away when he rode in the woods. Guy don't talk he shoots."
I will give you a good rifle one like this, and you shall travel everywhere with me." "You will beat Chub when you are angry, and make him shoot people with the rifle. I don't want it. If folks say harm to Chub, he can lick 'em with his fists. Chub don't want to live with you." "Well, as you please. But come in and look at my house and see where I live." "And shall I see the strannger agin?
"Well, by dogs, we've had a tough 'bout of it, boys; and, hark'ye, strannger, gi' us your hand. I don't know what we should have done without you, for I never seed man handle a little poleaxe as you did that same affair of your'n. You must have spent, I reckon, a pretty smart time at the use of it, now, didn't ye?"
"In the dug-out," said Ralph; "found her floating among the bushes, ax'd me out a flopper with my tom-axe in no time, jumped in, thought of anngelliferous madam, and came down the falls like a cob in a corn-van ar'n't I the leaping trout of the waters? Strannger, I don't want to sw'ar; but I reckon if there ar'n't hell up thar among the big stones, thar's hell no other whar all about Salt River!
"Well, now, that won't be reasonable, seeing that it's no use, and jest wasting good breath that might bring a fair price in the market." "What, not get in a passion if all the whiskey's gone? That won't do, strannger, and though you have helped me out of the ditch, by, dogs, no man shall prevent me from getting in a passion if I choose it." "Oh, to be sure, friend you an't up to my idee.
I didn't know that it was for the good it did you that you got in a passion. I am clear that when a man feels himself better from a passion, he oughtn't to be shy in getting into it. Though that wasn't a part of my edication, yet I guess, if such a thing would make me feel more comfortable, I'd get in a passion fifty times a day." "Well, now, strannger, you talk like a man of sense.
"If if you think I've done my duty to the strannger and the young lady," said the young man; and added, feebly pressing the father's hand, "and to you, dad, to you, and mother, and the rest of 'em." "You have, Tom," said the colonel, with somewhat a husky voice "to the travelling strannger, to mother, father, and all " "And to Kentucky?" murmured the dying youth,
"Praised be the Etarnal!" he roared; "cut me loose, strannger! Praised be the Etarnal, and this here dumb beast! Cut me loose, strannger, for the love of God!"
The water is pretty good thar, I reckon; and, strannger, after we've taken a sup, we'll eat a bite, and then lie down. It's high time, I reckon, that we do so." It was in his progress to the branch that Ralph Colleton came upon this member of the family.
"No, I guess not, strannger, as how should they a mean, tricky, catchpenny, skulking set that makes money out of everybody, and hain't the spirit to spend it! I do hate them, now, worse than a polecat!" "Well, now, friend, that's strange. If you were to travel for a spell, down about Boston or Salem in Massachusetts, or at Meriden in Connecticut, you'd hear tell of the Yankees quite different.
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