He's only for skearing the old feller." "And who," said Forrester, "may the old fellow be?
and why do you call him Bloody Nathan ?" "We call him Bloody Nathan," replied the commander, "because he's the only man in all Kentucky that _won't fight_! and thar's the way he beats us all hollow.

Lord, Captain, you'd hardly believe it, but he's nothing more than a poor Pennsylvany Quaker; and what brought him out to Kentucky, whar thar's nar another creatur' of his tribe, thar's no knowing.

Some say he war dishonest, and so had to cut loose from Pennsylvany; but I never heerd of his stealing anything in Kentucky; I reckon thar's too much of the chicken about him for that.

Some say he is hunting rich lands; which war like enough for anybody that war not so poor and lazy.

And some say his wits are unsettled, and I hold that that's the truth of the creatur'; for he does nothing but go wandering up and down the country, now h'yar and now thar, hunting for meat and skins; and that's pretty much the way he makes a living: and once I see'd the creatur' have a fit--a right up-and-down touch of the falling-sickness, with his mouth all of a foam.