She thinks I ought to w'ar a cocked hat and goold swabs, and put on a blue coat instead of a leather shirt; but I wonder how soon I'd see the end of it, out h'yar in the bushes?
And then, as for the girls, why thar's no end of the lessons she gives them;--and thar's my Jenny,--that's the youngest,--came blubbering up the other day, saying, 'she believed mother intended even to stop their licking at the sugar-troughs, she was getting so great and so proud!' Howsomever, women will be women, and thar's the end of it." To this philosophic remark the officer of inferior degree bowed acquiescence, and recalling his host's attention to the subject of most interest to himself, requested to be informed what difficulties or dangers might be apprehended on the further route to the Falls of Ohio.
"Why, none on 'arth that I know of," said Bruce; "you've as cl'ar and broad a trace before you as man and beast could make--a buffalo-street,[2] through the canes; and, when thar's open woods, blazes as thick as stars, and horse-tracks still thicker: thar war more than a thousand settlers have travelled it this year already.

As for danngers, Captain, why I reckon thar's none to think on.

Thar war a good chance of whooping and howling about Bear's Grass, last year, and some hard fighting; but I h'ar nothing of Injuns thar this y'ar.

But you leave some of your people h'yar: what force do you tote down to the Falls to-morrow ?" [Footnote 2: The bison-paths when very broad, were often thus called.] "Twenty-seven guns in all: but several quite too young to face an enemy." "Thar's no trusting to years in a matter of fighting!" said the Kentuckian.

"Thar's my son Tom, that killed his brute at fourteen; but, I remember, I told you that story.