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Make haste, ye'd better, and keep a bright lookout for Indians!" I thought the advice too good to be neglected. Fording the stream, I passed at a round trot over the plains beyond. But "the more haste, the worse speed." I proved the truth in the proverb by the time I reached the hills three miles from the fort.
"An' one thing more I want ter tell ye. I never approved er Steve's stealin' ye. I told him 'twa'n't right, but he wouldn't listen, an' I couldn't help ye. I was as 'fraid er him as ye was, an' he was so headstrong, I had ter let him do as he wanted ter. I'm tired now, and ye'd better run out ter the kitchen with Sue. I know I'll feel better now I've freed my mind."
The publisher of the Tribune stood beside the latter, smoking a pipe; a small man leaned over the counter at the stranger's elbow, putting in a word here and there; half a dozen people stood by, listening. Mr Greeley turned to his publisher in a moment. 'Rhoades, said he, 'I wish ye'd put these men out. They holler 'n yell, so I can't hear myself think. Then there was a general laugh.
He had almost completed an impression of her head against the sky, with a flying veil lifting above it, when a shadow fell across the canvas, and the voice of McEwan blared out a pleased greeting. "Weel, here ye are!" exclaimed that mountain of tweed, lowering himself onto a huge iron cleat between which and the bulwarks the two were sitting cross-legged. "I was speerin' where ye'd both be."
Father Roubeau, the humor of the situation just dawning on him, hid a smile behind his mittened hand. 'No, Lon; this rope was made for a man. Malemute Kid could be very impressive on occasion. 'What man? Bettles was becoming aware of a personal interest. 'The other man. 'An' which is the one ye'd mane by that? 'Listen, Lon and you, too, Bettles!
If she'd ever burst yere, sonny, ye'd never know what drownded ye. Look at that gulch!" The water had now drained from the hill entirely. It could be seen that most of the surface earth had been washed away, leaving the skeleton of the mountain bare. Some of the more slightly rooted trees had fallen, or clung precariously to the earth with bony fingers. But the gulch itself was terrible.
Didn't I lose two brothers in it as fine lads as ye'd find anywhere in the world! And many another lad I've seen go in laughin', and come out a corpse or what is worse, for workin' people, a cripple. Sometimes I'd like to go and stand at the pit-mouth in the mornin' and cry to them, 'Go back, go back! Go down the canyon this day!
'Thought ye looked as if ye'd seed something', she remarked incredulously, and then went on eating and feeding the dog, as indifferent to his presence as she was to the presence of the weeds. 'Are you going far to-night? he asked at length, thinking he would make more progress toward friendship before he sat down. 'To th' town. 'Indeed, as far as that!
At dawn, bootless and hatless, I came in sight of Fort Gibraltar and Father Holland, who was scanning the prairie for my return, came running to greet me. "The tip-top o' the mornin' to the renegade! I thought ye'd been scalped and so ye have been nearly only they mistook y'r hat for the wool o' y'r crown. Boots gone too! Out wid your midnight pranks."
Ye must learn that it won't do for a nigger to dispute a white man in Charleston; we'd twitch ye up by the same law; we'd put it to our own niggers, and ye'd git trised up, and about fifty paddles on yer bare butt."
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