Lor'! it must a' bin more ner thirty year ago! He tol' me thet they jist hed ter wade up ter ther neck in water fer days an' days.

I ain't so durn fond o' water as all thet.

An' he said as how rattlesnakes was everywhere; an' ther Injuns was mos' twice es big es they be yere." "But Clarke, and nearly all of his men, got back safely," I protested.
"Oh, I guess some on 'em got back, 'cause they was an awful lot in thet army, mighty nigh two thousand on 'em, Ephriam said; but, I tell ye, they hed a most terrible tough time afore they did git hum.

I seed my cousin whin he kim back, an' he was jist a mere shadder; though he was bigger ner you whin he went 'way." "But Fort Dearborn is much farther to the north.

Perhaps it will be better up there." "Wuss," he insisted, with a most mournful shake of the head, "a dinged sight wuss.