My tongue is too slow.

She gave me a chance and I wasn't man enough to take it.

That's all I've got to say on that subject." He seemed to find it hard to keep his word for in a moment he added: "I wouldn't have been so good a scout if it hadn't been for her.

I guess the Injuns would have got me but when I thought of her I just kept going." "I think you did it just because you were a brave man and had a duty to perform," said Abe.
Some time afterward in a letter to his father the boy wrote: * * * * * "I often think of that ride down the river and the way he talked to me.
It was so gentle.

He was a big, powerful giant of a man who weighed over two hundred pounds, all of it bone and muscle.