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"I knew that in Abe's vocabulary for that night at least a `varmint' meant a 'coon; and as we dashed through the brushwood, following the dog, I felt all the excitement of a 'coon-chase. "It was not a long one I should think of about five minutes' duration; at the end of which time the yelp of the dog which had hitherto guided us, changed into a regular and continuous harking.
"'Twan't very clur at the time, for it had been a-growin' cloudier ever since I left the shanty, but 'twur clur enough to show me that the thing wur a varmint: what sort, I couldn't tell. It mout be a bar, an' it mout not; but I had my suspects it wur eyther a bar or a painter. "I wan't left long in doubt about the thing's gender.
"If I don't come back you'll know those varmint redskins have got my scalp; but though I can't use my arms, they'll find I can use my legs before they catch me." With many misgivings I saw him make his way out from the thicket.
Europe wrenched them asunder with much pain, and held them back by their tails, grinning horribly at each other, and their long claws working unamiably. The diggers were remonstrating; their morality was shocked. "Is that the way to fight? What are fists given us for, ye varmint?" Robinson put himself at the head of the general sentiment.
Edwards, in fact, used an even more vulgar word. But he was not stopping to weigh words. Magistrates, Inspector, Clerk he took charge of them all on the spot a master of men. The Admiral, in the unfathomed dark of the cellar, was indeed uttering language to make your hair creep. "Oh, cuss away, y' old varmint!" sang down Mr. Edwards cheerfully.
"Ef it was only the fellows behind," Peter said, "we could leave them easy enough, but the wood seems alive with the varmint." It was evident the alarm had spread through the forest, and that the bands scattered here and there were aware that an enemy was in their midst.
"'Gents, I ain't above admittin' that the news puts my heart to a canter. I'm brave; but conflicts with wild an' savage beasts is to me a novelty an' while I faces my fate without a flutter, I'm yere to say I'd sooner been in pursoot of minks or raccoons or some varmint whose grievous cap'bilities I can more ackerately stack up an' in whose merry ways I'm better versed.
But he had to get his, some time, an' somebody's meditations would hev to be disturbed. This hyar varmint, gents, what is now an unopposed candidate for a funeral pow-wow, was a little too previous with his gun agin my younger brother. It's a case of plain justice, gents; my brother was without weapons, and he pointing to the figure on the floor, 'he knew it.
Behind them the occupants of the hut were still keeping up a brisk fire toward the trees, while from several quarters shouts could be heard, and more than once the Indian war-whoop rose in the forest. "That's just what I was afeared of," Peter muttered. "There's some of those darned varmint with 'em.
I'll walk along with you now, an' I guess that varmint won't bother you no more. If he does " He patted his rifle with a gesture that spoke more plainly than words could have done. "Tell me all about it as we go along," he said. "I guess maybe there'll be some work for us to do after we all get together runnin' those gypsies out.
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