They were strangers to each other, he affirmed, and my chances of being elected would therefore be as good as any man's.
"I'll tell yur what it is," said he; "yur kin turn with me ter the rendevooz, an' see for yurself; but if ye'll only jine, an' licker freely, I'll lay a pack o' beaver agin the skin of a mink that they'll illect ye captain of the company." "Even a lieutenancy," I interposed.
"Ne'er a bit of it, cap.

Go the big figger.

'Tain't more nor yur entitled to.

I kin git yur a good heist among some hunters thet's thur; but thar's a buffalo drove o' them parleyvoos, an' a feller among 'em, one of these hyur creeholes, that's been a-showin' off and fencin' with a pair of skewers from mornin' till night.

I'd be dog-gone glad to see the starch taken out o' that feller." I took my resolution.