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Scenes In America.
" Yes ! he ' s a young traveller . " " You'll have to be keerful ridin ' too fast sich hot weather ; you'll do him up . " " I am . " " AVell ; now , that ' s ivhat one ought , to a dumb beast ; though it an ' t every body that is . Some folks an't got no feelin' for nothin' only jist themselves . " With the hope of cutting short his string of interrogations I asked if
sufficient time had not elapsed for the return ofhis companion . " Not yet , " carelessly uttered , was his reply ; whereupon he rehired to the charge , evidently determined to satisfy himself fully before he stopped . " Come from the upper counties , I reckon ?" " Yes . " " AVell ; if it ' s no offence , what mought your name be ?" " Jones . " " You an't no kin to Hugh Jonesthat went to the legislator , may- he ?"
, " Not at all . " " I've seed him many a time at the musters . He ' s staunch for Ball ; and thar's a good many in these parts that is . AVho tire they goin' to vote for , for gov ' nor , in your parts ?" " Indeed I am not able to tell . " " I an't for Ball myself : for all we ' re party much namesaked : he an ' t jist over loaded with sense for a gov ' nor . " " Then name is Ballis it ?"
your , ' " Why , in these here parts , I go by it any how , Peter Ball's the name my daddy gave me , and I never used no other " " You are very fond of hunting , I should think . " " I like a good hunt . —Only , I was jist a' thinkin ' , may be you staid hist night at the Knob ?"
" No . " " Bill Todd's , may be , o' this side ?" " A ' es ; I staid at Todd's . " " I ncvor was up that way much ; I ' ve beam talk about Todd ' s . Good " couimodations for trav'llers thai- ' , they say . " " Yes ; pretty good , " " Bill 's a clever fellor , I expect ?" " No doubt . " Onl thinks he t the straiht in dealin
" y , some an'altogether gthing ' . " I made no reply . He took up his gun from his side , threw it over him , and sitting upright , began to examine the lock ; while he continued talking , with his attention equally divided between the gun and my late host . " Ned Saunders , when he lived up by the Knob , had a suit ^ with Bill Todd , 'bout a cow ; and they say , they'd some mighty tough swearin' atween ' em . " Here he threw out the priming , and carefully wiped the pan ofhis gun-lock . " Ned knows our Sam , an' he tol' him a great pack o' stuff about Bill . " Having reprimed his rifle , he proceeded to examine the triggers and sights . " Ned ' s a ' cute fellor himself , tradin' or swoppin' of a horse : and may be it an't jist all gospel . " AVith a piece of tow he wiped the barrel
of his rifle from one end to the other . " Dick I odd , down here in the Grove , is a man as straight as a shingle , an' as first rate a shot as ever pulled trigger . " The old hunter now raised up his head in the attitude of intense listening , mid then told me that Jack was coming—lie heard the horse . In a few moments I myself could distinguish a singular sound which I knew to arise from the galloping of a horse through the grass . As it approached us , all of a sudden we heard a crack like the snapping of a large stick—then the snort
of a horse—and in the next moment the sound of an animal dashing through the bushes , and into the grass . " It's your nag broke loose ; " said the hunter , as we both sprang out of the thicket . My horse was gone . AVe ran ui ) out of the sink , ancl discovered him , head and tail up , bounding through
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Scenes In America.
" Yes ! he ' s a young traveller . " " You'll have to be keerful ridin ' too fast sich hot weather ; you'll do him up . " " I am . " " AVell ; now , that ' s ivhat one ought , to a dumb beast ; though it an ' t every body that is . Some folks an't got no feelin' for nothin' only jist themselves . " With the hope of cutting short his string of interrogations I asked if
sufficient time had not elapsed for the return ofhis companion . " Not yet , " carelessly uttered , was his reply ; whereupon he rehired to the charge , evidently determined to satisfy himself fully before he stopped . " Come from the upper counties , I reckon ?" " Yes . " " AVell ; if it ' s no offence , what mought your name be ?" " Jones . " " You an't no kin to Hugh Jonesthat went to the legislator , may- he ?"
, " Not at all . " " I've seed him many a time at the musters . He ' s staunch for Ball ; and thar's a good many in these parts that is . AVho tire they goin' to vote for , for gov ' nor , in your parts ?" " Indeed I am not able to tell . " " I an't for Ball myself : for all we ' re party much namesaked : he an ' t jist over loaded with sense for a gov ' nor . " " Then name is Ballis it ?"
your , ' " Why , in these here parts , I go by it any how , Peter Ball's the name my daddy gave me , and I never used no other " " You are very fond of hunting , I should think . " " I like a good hunt . —Only , I was jist a' thinkin ' , may be you staid hist night at the Knob ?"
" No . " " Bill Todd's , may be , o' this side ?" " A ' es ; I staid at Todd's . " " I ncvor was up that way much ; I ' ve beam talk about Todd ' s . Good " couimodations for trav'llers thai- ' , they say . " " Yes ; pretty good , " " Bill 's a clever fellor , I expect ?" " No doubt . " Onl thinks he t the straiht in dealin
" y , some an'altogether gthing ' . " I made no reply . He took up his gun from his side , threw it over him , and sitting upright , began to examine the lock ; while he continued talking , with his attention equally divided between the gun and my late host . " Ned Saunders , when he lived up by the Knob , had a suit ^ with Bill Todd , 'bout a cow ; and they say , they'd some mighty tough swearin' atween ' em . " Here he threw out the priming , and carefully wiped the pan ofhis gun-lock . " Ned knows our Sam , an' he tol' him a great pack o' stuff about Bill . " Having reprimed his rifle , he proceeded to examine the triggers and sights . " Ned ' s a ' cute fellor himself , tradin' or swoppin' of a horse : and may be it an't jist all gospel . " AVith a piece of tow he wiped the barrel
of his rifle from one end to the other . " Dick I odd , down here in the Grove , is a man as straight as a shingle , an' as first rate a shot as ever pulled trigger . " The old hunter now raised up his head in the attitude of intense listening , mid then told me that Jack was coming—lie heard the horse . In a few moments I myself could distinguish a singular sound which I knew to arise from the galloping of a horse through the grass . As it approached us , all of a sudden we heard a crack like the snapping of a large stick—then the snort
of a horse—and in the next moment the sound of an animal dashing through the bushes , and into the grass . " It's your nag broke loose ; " said the hunter , as we both sprang out of the thicket . My horse was gone . AVe ran ui ) out of the sink , ancl discovered him , head and tail up , bounding through