"Pitcairn told Charlie and me (on the strict q. t.) that the gold channel crossed the divide at No. 10, and the only gold on Little Minóokust what spilt down on those six claims as the gold went crossin' the gulch.

Settlements under watermen up in trees callin' to us to stop for the love of Godmen in boats crossin' our channel, headin' us off, thinkin' nothin' o' the risk o' bein' run down.

Many a feller has mired down tryin' a new crossin'.

he exclaimed aloud, "I wonder if Skinny'll remember about that upper crossin' bein' dang'rous with quicksand after the rainGuess he did," he finished as the two riders turned to the right toward the lower and more distant river ford and disappeared among the willows and cottonwood trees that fringed the Cimarron.

I didn't think about double crossin' you.

"Stan' up an' tell us that you're a double crossin' houn', Buck Daniels!"

Thess the same sort o' spells he's had all along, doctor,seems you can't never see 'im in one,all brought on by us a-crossin' 'im. His gran'ma insisted on hidin' the clock when he wanted it; but I reckon she'll hardly resk it ag'in, she's that skeert.

"Are you double-crossin' me, Steve?" "Why d'you suspect me?

You think I'm double-crossin' you.

You think I'm double-crossin'?" "I'll do it.

Don't forgit the turn to the left, after crossin' Jackson's Run.

All I know is, I saw her crossin' herself one day when she came out of that room.

"There's no crossin' that mud puddle Fry-Pan.

Aunt Mandy said, 'We crossin' you old Red River today, but we not going to cross you any more, cause we are going home now, back to Arkansas.'

De river wuz overflowin' an' as we wuz crossin' a deep, swift slough, Colonel Baker and his horse got tangled up in some grape vines.

It was a dull, foggy mornin', and I was crossin' de bayou with Big Bob Smith.

"Meanwhile we was crossin' one of them bridgesjust crawlin' along like one of the motors had quit and the other was hittin' only on three.

'Twas seen another time by market-folk crossin' fra Gyllenstan in the self-same place; and Snakes Island got a bad neam, and none cared to go nar it after nightfall.

Den afterwards, I begin to worry gin about dis boy, I prays "De Lawd" and ax him ter let me drem a drem bout him an nite time I did, I could see dis boy jist as plaincrossing "Judgment Stream" and I says to him in my drem, I say, "You come my son, he's crossin Judgment Stream, I says ter ole man go in and hep him" and my son says to me, "I'm crossing Judgment Stream, Mammy, and I got to cross it myself".

We all went to de colored school what dey had down whar de railroad crossin' is now, an' dat was whar

"Goin' to that ice-cream festival over to the Methodist Church at Deer Crossin' to-night?"

Says he to me, smilin': "Keep y'r conscience pure; it is better than crossin' and blessin'.

'I wish to I had flung it in the Clyde when we was crossin' the brig.' 'What gaed wrang?' inquired Macgregor, rubbing his eyes.

Den I knowed he be a hant, an de nex day when I tell somebody bout it dey say he be de genman what got killed at de crossin a spell back, an other folks has seen him jus like I did.

But when you see you've made a mis-step you must draw your foot back and start off agin jest like a elephant crossin' a weak bridge, I've seen 'em go down into the water and wade ruther than resk it.