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We are going to capture Vincennes, Kenton, are we not? We shall, sha'n't we, Jazon? Nothing, nothing can prevent us, can it?" Kenton heartily returned the pressure of the young man's hand, while Oncle Jazon looked up quizzically and said: "We're a tol'ble 'spectable lot to prevent; but then we might git pervented. I've seed better men an' us purty consid'ble pervented lots o' times in my life."
The man ejected a mouthful of dark, offensive juice from between his grizzled whiskers before replying. "Yes, purty tol'ble scarce. So much demand for 'em is bound to clean the birds out. There used to be heaps of orioles an' robins an' larks an' blackbirds an' waxwings through the country, but they're getting played out too, since the wimmen tuk to wearin' 'em on their bunnets."
Tige obeying sullenly, to the extent that he crouched where he was and still growled; his master rested his elbows on his great, bony knees, sucked at a short-stemmed clay pipe and waited developments. "How d'yuh do?" Dade, holding Surry as close to the belligerent Tige as was wise, tried to make his greeting as neutral as the attitude of the other. "Tol'ble, thank yuh, how's y'self?
It's tol'ble plain 'at we're gone goslins this time, I'm thinkin'; still it'd be mighty satisfyin' if I could plug out a lef' eye or two 'fore I go." Beverley was silent; the words of his companions were heard by him, but not noticed. Nothing interested him save the thought of escaping and making his way to Clark.
"Those letters of yours was mortal fine," he said. "Seems to me I could most find my way around London, with its stores an' nigglin' trails. It's a tol'ble city. A mighty good eddication, travelin'." "I suppose it is." Rosebud seemed to have lost her desire for conversation. "Makes you think some," Seth went on, heedless of the girl's abstraction.
"Where?" asked Nick, glancing round the hut in search of a secure hiding-place. "We'll dig a hole in the floor under my blankets," said Ralph after a pause. "Maybe it'll be tol'ble safe there." And for greater security the chest was so disposed. The work was quickly done, and the clay floor, with the aid of water, was smeared into its usual smooth appearance again.
The old gen'l'man likes to read out loud, and he reads tol'ble well. He eats hash freely, which makes his voice clear; but as he onfortnitly has to spell the most of his words, I may say he reads slow. Wall, whenever this lawyer made his appearance I would set the old man a-reading the Legislativ' reports.
"Tol'ble," grunted the old mountaineer. "Are the dogs ready?" Ben nodded. "Start morning," he said. "Good," shouted the boys. "We couldn't imagine where you had been keeping yourself all the time," added the Professor. "Lige went over to your cabin last night and found it locked." "Been away, Ben?" asked Lige. "Over to Eagle Pass. Miners steal old Ben's hogs one, two of them.
Joe fired the old gun to start 'em and, great Jerushy! in a minute the sky was dark with 'em; I just blazed away and they dropped thick all around us, and it kept us tol'ble busy for a while a pickin' 'em up." "Pop, tell 'em about the old water bird down in the swamp," said Joe with a wicked laugh. "Yes, tell us; what was it, pop?" urged Betty.
"Tol'ble reasonin'," nodded Joe, chewing his cud reflectively. "What do you make of it?" "A whole heap," Joe said, spitting emphatically. "What do I make of it? Yes, that's it, a whole heap. Guess that feller you see most of had his face covered. Was that cover a mask?" "It might have been." "A red mask?" "I couldn't see the color. It was too dark. Might have been."
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