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Updated: June 8, 2025
I'm sorry I skeert that old preacher, but he came upon me in the picture hall so suddent, that it was a mighty close call, I tell you, to get off without a shindy. Please forgive me, Miss Fontonelles. When you get this, I shall be going back home to America, but you might write to me at Denver City, saying you're all right.
I'd be skeert settin' here eatin' with Mr. St. John, but this feller's only a kid, and I feel quite to hum with him." "Amarilly," he said confidentially, as they were sipping their coffee from "little cups," "you are truthful, I know. Will you be perfectly frank with me and answer a question?" "Mebby," she replied warily. "Did you ever eat a luncheon like this before?"
Hyar it is; thisa-way;" and the clumsy hunter began to show off before his partner, in an imitation of the grizzly bear. "Hollo, Bill!" cries a comrade, "yer'll be trapped if yer don't look sharp." "I'm dog-gone, Jim, if I don't feel queery about hyar," replies the hunter, spreading his great paw over the region of the heart. "Don't be skeert, man; it's a nice gal, anyways."
"Tell her I'm here, Hattie. I must see her at once. It's all right. She isn't angry with me." The girl hesitated. "She look mighty white an' sick, suh. She never say a word. Jes' go right up stairs, she did. Ah follers, 'ca'se Ah was skeert about de way she look. She shutten de do' an' drop de bolt, yas, suh, dat's what she do. Lordy, Ah wonder why her ma don't come home an' look after "
With a feeling of relief he could not understand he offered her a seat. She turned her frank eyes on him curiously. "You look skeert!" "I was startled. You know I see nobody here!" "Thet's so. But look yar, do you ever use a doctor?" Not clearly understanding her, he in turn asked, "Why?" "Cause you must rise up and get one now thet's why. This yer baby of ours is sick.
Believe me, chief, I'm right glad of this opportunity to have revenge on him. That's what I have been saying to him." "Ugh!" grunted the savage, apparently satisfied with the explanation. "Neow, capting!" angrily shouted the rifleman, once more raising his piece to the level, "look e' out! Don't be skeert abeout my hittin' o' ye! The whang lies well ageen the bit o' timber. The ball's a big un.
It wuz a bank of sand that skeert it, a high bank that wuz piled up by a little hovel that stood by the side of the road. The ground all round the hut wuz too poor to raise anything else but sand, and had raised sights of that.
Thess the same sort o' spells he's had all along, doctor, seems you can't never see 'im in one, all brought on by us a-crossin' 'im. His gran'ma insisted on hidin' the clock when he wanted it; but I reckon she'll hardly resk it ag'in, she's that skeert. He's been settin' on the flo' there thess the way you see 'im now, with that clock in his lap, all mornin'.
I wisht Clay had popped a hole in Daviess, jest like Burr did in Hamilton. Why didn't they fight? They say Daviess sent a challenge. Wonder why that dool 'tween Jo and Harry never come off?" Hadley shrugged his shoulders. "That gits me," continued Jim. "Reckon it were a case of one askeert and an' t'other da'sn't, eh, Hen?" "Skeert nothin'!" mumbled the backwoodsman. "Clay's a dead shot."
Frightened 'em outen their slippers! Oh, jiminy! Never, never, NEVER before was they so skeert! Never since school kept did they have to crawl like that! They was skeert enough FIRST when you come, but just now! Lordy! They wasn't a-goin' to let you see me but they had to! had to! HAD TO!" and she emphasized each repetition with a skip.
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