After the Indians had skedaddled for the woods, and we cut the cords that bound pa, the cannibals went to work and skun the dogs, and began to cook them, and pa looked on, until it made him squirmish, but he was so tickled at being saved from the Indians, that he tried to be a good fellow with the cannibals.

" "Mary skedaddled after dinner," said Ajax, frowning, "but I'm going into town to-morrow to bring him back.

Without looking at him the Right Bower rose, leaned against the open door with his hands behind him and his face towards the landscape, and said, apparently to the distant prospect: "The claim's played out, the partnership's played out, and the sooner we skedaddle out of this the better.

"All have skedaddled to other places.

"He came in and lit the gas; if he'd been in it, he'd have skedaddled with the rest.