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Strannger thar's as brash as a new hound in a b'ar fight, or a young boss in a corn-field, and no safe friend in a forest. Say the word, marm, or if you think it ar'nt manners to speak to a strannger, jist shake your little finger, and I'll follow like a dog, and do you dog's sarvice.
'H'yar goes for grim death and massacreation, says I, and tuck the shoot; and if I didn't fetch old dug-out through slicker than snakes, and faster than a well-greased thunderbolt, niggurs ar'n't niggurs, nor Injuns Injuns: and, strannger, if you axes me why, h'yar's the wharfo' 'twar because I thought of anngelliferous madam!
It does everything for a man, and he larns to make everything out of nothing. I could make my bread where these same Indians wouldn't find the skin of a hoe-cake; and in these woods, or in the middle of the sea, t'ant anything for me to say I can always fish up some notion that will sell in the market." "Well, now, that's wonderful, strannger, and I should like to see how you would do it."
The society and the continued presence of Nature, as it were, in her own peculiar abode, put aside all merely conventional distinctions, and men meet upon a common footing. Thus, even when perfect strangers to one another, after the usual preliminaries of "how are you, friend," or "strannger?" "whar from?" "whar going?"
"Strannger," replied Ralph, with a lengthened visage and a gravity somewhat surprising for him, "I seed the Jibbenainosay! 'tarnal death to me, but I seed him as plain as ever I seed old Salt!
"Thar's the brute, strannger!" said he, with uncommon glee: "he war too hard a horse for Ralph's riding; and, I reckon, if he hadn't been, you wouldn't have had him so easy, for he's a peeler at a run, trot, or gallop, he is, I tell you! It's bad luck for Stackpole to be flung by man and beast two days hand-running, first by Bloody Nathan, then by a stolen crittur!"
"Do you think I will, and you may be looking arter her too? 'Drot my old hat, strannger, but I do itch to git at you." "Oh, now, Mr. Williams " "I won't answer to that name. Call me Chub Williams, if you wants to be perlite. Mother always calls me Chub, and that's the reason I like it." "Well, Chub," said the other, quite paternally "I assure you I don't love Miss Munro and "
Strannger, I am the gentleman to see her out of a fight; and so jist tell her thar's no occasion for being uneasy; for, 'tarnal death to me, I'll mount Shawnees, and die for her, jist like nothing."
"That will be hard, too a mighty tough difficulty, now, strannger to be hanged for other folks' doings. But, I reckon, he'll have to make up his mind to it." "Oh, no! don't say so, now, my friend, I beg you. What makes you think so?" said the anxious pedler. "Why, only from what I heer'd you say. You said so yourself, and I believed it as if I had seed it," was the reply of the simple countryman.
"Don't say must to me, strannger, if you want that we shall keep hands off. I don't let any man say must to me." "No harm, my friend I didn't mean no harm," said the worried pedler, not knowing what to make of his acquaintance, who spoke shrewdly at times, but occasionally in a speech, which awakened the doubts of the pedler as to the safety of his wits.
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