But wait till Asa comes in.

He pass'd the spot where I found the marks, and the boy knows something of such matters too." "Ay, the boy knows too much of many things," returned Ishmael, gloomily.
"It will be better for him when he thinks he knows less.

But what matters it, Hetty, if all the Sioux tribes, west of the big river, are within a mile of us; they will find it no easy matter to scale this rock, in the teeth of ten bold men." "Call 'em twelve at once, Ishmael; call 'em twelve!" cried his termagant assistant.

"For if your moth-gathering, bug-hunting friend, can be counted a man, I beg you will set me down as two.

I will not turn my back to him, with the rifle or the shot-gun; and for courage!--the yearling heifer, that them skulking devils the Tetons stole, was the biggest coward among us all, and after her came your drivelling Doctor.
Ah! Ishmael, you rarely attempt a regular trade but you come out the loser; and this man, I reckon, is the hardest bargain among them all! Would you think it, the fellow ordered me a blister around my mouth, because I complained of a pain in the foot ?" "It is a pity, Eester," the husband coolly answered, "that you did not take it; I reckon it would have done considerable good.