And we're on our way now to see where he left the critters," declared Will.

"We've got to git the critter out, someway," said Jerry, "and the sooner we go about it, the better for us.

"Stay here an' watch me scare the critter!" said old Jesse, with a frown.

Then you will want a critter each to ride.

I must hab dis one at any price!, Old Killall be good-natured a month, when he sees dis handsome critter; but if he don't use her up in less dan dat time, he'll do what he neber done afore!

"There, Marm," said the owner, eying my face as an amused expression stole over it; "ef you don't care for <i>style</i>, ef ye want a good, steddy critter, and a critter that can <i>go</i>, and a critter that <i>any</i> lady can drive, <i>there's</i>

Well, we had our lunch in a box and a bottle of cold tea, and we eat it, and rested quite a spell, Josiah's good nater returnin' with every mouthful he took, till by the time we got ready to start out agin, he wuz as clever a critter as I want to see.

"Yer see," continued he, talking in a low tone of voice, "antelope's the most curious critters in the world, 'ceptin' women.

That's why I've come to cowhide the critter within an inch o' his life!"

"Yes," Parker replied, "we've got the beef critters in I guessthey're in the upland pasture.

Caught in the shower of lead and flint We felt the old stage stagger and plunge; Then we heerd the voice and the whip of Ben, As he gethered his critters up again, And tore away with a lunge.

"Consarn and keelhaul the critters, they're breakin' out all the time.

It was mos' too dressy fer a lady to wear, let alone a critter like me who'd allus slep' in his pants an' day shirt.

"'Twenty odd years ago,' said the old pilot, as he lighted his pipe and seated himself on the head of a whisky-keg, 'there warn't a great many people along the Ohio, except Ingins and bears, and we didn't like to cultivate a very close acquaintance with either of them, for the Ingins were cheatin', deceivin', and scalpin' critters, and the bears had an onpleasant way with 'em, that people of delicate narves didn't like.

That air lost critter of yourn was a Comanche scout's, you bet; and, bein' a scout, he couldn't have done nothin' else, 'cause it might hev spilt their entire calculation.

So he starts in to tell me that 'stock didn't necessarily mean beef critters,' and a lot more things, whilst old man Ferguson, who was putting the deal through, stood listening and chewing his teeth, thinking I was going to give our friend the frolicsome hee-hee at the wind-up.

Frank, I guess you nailed that critter, all right.

I soon overhauled the critter, and picked up my rifle to give him a settler, when I found that in paddlin' I had spattered water into the canoe, wettin' the primin' and makin' the gun of no more use than a stick.

Bill would pick up an old critter whose par value was the price of one horse-hide, and after it had been pulled and shoved into his stable, the boys would stand around waiting for crape to be hung on the door.

Sumpin' seems to pull the critters back, an' they break away from human kind to roam the woods an' hunt ther livin'.

It was a near thing for us, but the American hog responded noblyand a good many other critters as well, I suspectand when it came on toward delivery day we found that we had the actual lard to turn over on our short contracts, and some to spare.

"'Oh, I ain't so much,' says Aggy, 'although I'm as good a man to-day as ever I was in my lifebut I have a little friend here who can rope, down, and ride that critter from here to the brick-front in five minutes by the watch; and if you've got a twenty-five dollar bill in your pocket, or its equivalent in dust, you can observe the experiment.'

Often I've watched him rope a critter; he never whirled his rope, even when ridingalways snapped.

Sunny Bushes, oil, mortgage an' all, but not the stock, I wouldn't sell any living critter to sech as you.

"It'll do as evidence when I want ter send this critter to jail, which I'll sartin do if he ever comes a foolin' 'round my traps agin.