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And when he described him we all done so, owing to his onusual appearance. He was a little teeny feller, rising of five feet tall, with a cough that unbuttoned his vest about every three minutes. He had eyes 'way round on the side of his head like a grasshopper and the blamest, busiest, biggest, scariest, nervousest Adamses' apple I ever see.
Then he dressed it with the sheepskin and put on the hat. When it was done, it was the scariest looking scarecrow you ever saw! "I guess that will frighten the crows!" said Dion, as he gazed at it admiringly. "It just about scares me." "Caw, caw, caw!" screamed a crow. A crow was flying right over his head! Dion shook his fist at him. "You old thief!" he cried.
"And why not, Obed?" further asked Steve; "I'd think that was the very time you'd feel scariest, when it was dark, and you couldn't see if anybody was prowling around the farm." "Stop an' think how foxes have holes in the ground, into which they c'n burrow when scared the least mite," explained Obed, readily, "and yuh'll see how hard it'd be for a stranger to lay hands on them.
It was town meetin' day. "Well, there was a critter there, called by nickname, 'Goodish Greevoy, a mounted on a white pony, one o' the scariest little screamers, you ever see since you was born. He was a tryin' to get up a race, was Goodish, and banterin' every one that had a hoss to run with him. "His face was a fortin' to a painter.
It was town meetin' day. "Well, there was a critter there, called by nickname, 'Goodish Greevoy, a mounted on a white pony, one o' the scariest little screamers, you ever see since you was born. He was a tryin' to get up a race, was Goodish, and banterin' every one that had a hoss to run with him. "His face was a fortin' to a painter.
Crook called me aside and told me the nature of the man who was to accompany us, saying that there was not a watering place nor an Indian trail in the whole territory that he did not know, and said he: "If you don't see any Indians or fresh sign of Indians he will show you all over the country. But he is the scariest man of Indians you ever saw in your life." This man's name was Freeman.
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