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Now, captain, a better gal than Telie her true name's Matilda, but she never heard anything of it but Telie a better gal was never seen in the woods, for all she's young and timorsome; and it's jist my notion and my desire, that, whatever may become of me, nothing but good shall become of her.
Only I must show her how to pull the trigger, and also adjust the muzzle so as to bear on the steps by which the villains would come up! For, as all have seen, she was naturally of a very timorsome and quavering disposition.
You may take in timorsome gals in the settlements, with your catamount whine, but the ears of a man can tell truth from ontruth." "Hist laughs at him! She sees he is lame, and a poor hunter, and he has never been on a war path. She will take a man for a husband, and not a fish." "How do you know that, Catamount? how do you know that?" returned Deerslayer laughing.
"I cannot deny your words," he said, "for I am little skilled in horses, though born where they abound. The wolves must be hovering above their heads on the bank, and the timorsome creatures are calling on man for help, in the best manner they are able.
A faint-hearted man is like a no-tailed beaver." "I don't believe, Hurry, that they account me as out-of the-way timorsome, even though they may not account me as out-of-the-way brave. But I'm not quarrelsome; and that goes a great way towards keeping blood off the hands, among the hunters and red-skins; and then, Harry March, it keeps blood off the conscience, too."
Wullie sits down at the fire, and awa' wi' her yarn gaes the wife; but scarce had she steekit the door, and wan half-way down the close, when the bairn cocks up on its doup in the cradle, and rounds in Wullie's lug: 'Wullie Tylor, an' ye winna tell my mither when she comes back, I'se play ye a bonny spring on the bagpipes. I wat Wullie's heart was like to loup the hool for tylors, ye ken, are aye timorsome but he thinks to himsel': 'Fair fashions are still best, an' 'It's better to fleetch fules than to flyte wi' them'; so he rounds again in the bairn's lug: 'Play up, my doo, an' I'se tell naebody. Wi' that the fairy ripes amang the cradle strae, and pu's oot a pair o' pipes, sic as tylor Wullie ne'er had seen in a' his days muntit wi' ivory, and gold, and silver, and dymonts, and what not.
But Chandler, who is as keen as a fox for smelling out trouble, acts to me as if he was frightened; and I think he must have scented mischief brewing, somewhere." "Some say he is a very timorsome man." "Yes; but watchful and sagacious, and therefore an index not to be disregarded." "May be so. But what are your orders about these papers?"
"I'd rather not, I'd rather not, Sergeant. Leave the matter to Mabel and me, and I think all will come right in the ind. Young girls are like timorsome birds; they do not over-relish being hurried or spoken harshly to nither. Leave the matter to Mabel and me."
"I cannot deny your words," he said; "for I am little skilled in horses, though born where they abound. The wolves must be hovering above their heads on the bank, and the timorsome creatures are calling on man for help, in the best manner they are able.
The truth is, Polly, I'll do it." "But why didn't he do it himself?" asked his wife. "Why? why?" he replied, looking at her with his keen ferret eyes "why, don't you know what a weak-minded, timorsome creature he was, ever since the height o' my knee?" "Oh, ay," she returned; "and I hard something about an oath, I think, that they made him take."
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