I'm shore I ain't mistook.

I've hunted 'coons an' 'possums at night too much to be mistook about shadders.

I reckon, if I may say so, shadders is my specialty, me bein' somethin' o' a night owl.
As shore as I'm standin' here, leftenant, and as shore as you're settin' there on your hoss, a mounted man come to the edge of that wood an' stayed thar a while, watchin' us.

I'd have follered him, but I couldn't leave my beat here, an' you're the first officer I've saw since.

It may amount to nothin, an' then again it mayn't." "I'm glad you told me.