"I sort of thought--" "Never mind what you thought.

He's one of the unruly, servigerous sort; can't take orders, and a trouble maker always.

We'll show that outfit.
I've ordered three more scows built and the seams calked in the wagon boxes." Surely enough, the Banion plan of crossing, after all, was carried out, and although the river dropped a foot meantime, the attempt to ford _en masse_ was abandoned.

Little by little the wagon parks gathered on the north bank, each family assorting its own goods and joining in the general _sauve qui peut_.
Nothing was seen of the Missouri column, but rumor said they were ferrying slowly, with one boat and their doubled wagon boxes, over which they had nailed hides.

Woodhull was keen to get on north ahead of this body.