He gives her jest one fling into the south, an' then he bolts off into the north, like an arrow out o' the bow.

I follows him lickety-split to bring him back, but he runs so fast I can't ketch him." Paul smiled.
"I've one father and mother already," he said, "and so I have no use for two.

Rather than cause embarrassment, I came away as quickly as I could." "You did come fast," said Henry dryly.
"It was mighty fine of all of you to come after me," said Paul earnestly, "and to risk your lives to save me from the Shawnees.

But I knew you'd do it." "Uv course," said Tom Ross simply.

"The rest uv our party would hev come, too, but they were needed back thar in Kentucky.