Do it now, or by Gawd, I'll chase you over the side of the boat and feed you to the catfish, you low-down imertation of a he-thing.

Mister," she turned to me again, "will you please tell me how come me to be the mother of a thing like this--me, a woman of ole Missoury; and me a cousin of ole Simon Kenton of Kentucky beside ?" "My good woman," said I, somewhat amused by her methods of action and speech, "do you mind telling me what is your name ?" "Name's Mandy McGovern; and I come from Pike," she answered, almost before the words were out of my mouth.

"I've been merried three times and my first two husbands died a-fightin, like gentlemen, in diffikilties with friends.

Then along come this Danny Calkins, that taken up some land nigh to me in the bottoms--low-downest coward of a, man that ever disgraced the sile of yearth--and then I merried _him_." "Is he dead, too, my dear woman ?" I asked.
"Don't you 'dear woman' me--I ain't free to merry agin yit," said she.
"Naw, he ain't dead, and I ain't deevorced either.

I just done left him.
Why, every man in Pike has whupped Danny Calkins one time or other.