Likewise they took our hosses, and guns and traps and the furs we had gotten from three months' hunting.

Their chief made a speech saying we had no right in Kaintuckee and if they cotched us again our lives'ud pay for it.

They'd ha' sculped us if it hadn't been for Jim, but you could see they knew him, and was feared of him.

Wal, Finley reckoned the game was up, and started back with the Yadkiners.

Cooley and Joe Holden and Mooneyiye mind them, Squire! But I was feeling kinder cross and wanted my property back, and old Jim--why, he wasn't going to be worsted by no redskins.