Oonomoo has acted as a runner or bearer of messages between many of the men in the American army and their families, upon the frontier, and the last time I saw him he brought me word that Lieutenant Canfield intended shortly to visit me on furlough.
He may have arrived immediately after the Indians burnt our place." "A good t'ing; a good t'ing if he only has." "Why would it be a good thing ?" "Does he know Oonomoo ?" "Certainly; he has known him for several years." "Well, den, dey will come together, and dey'll fix up fings so dat dey will got you out of dis place afore long." "I hope so; I hope so.

Death would not be more terrible than the suffering I undergo here, especially at night.

Oh! will you not stay by me ?" asked the prisoner, the tears starting to her eyes.
Hans Vanderbum gouged his fists into his own visual organs, and muttered something about "de dunderin' shmoke," before he could reply.
"Yesh, yesh, I 'tends to you.

You needn't be 'fraid.

Dey won't hurt you, I doesn't t'ink.