Beadle's Dime Novels No. 231: The Texan Trailer — page 30: what you’re looking at

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<a =>. ~ 40 THE TEXAN TRAILER. little, . The stolid Dutchman seemed certain that it was all well with both of them, and that there was no cause for anx- iety about cither, — “ Sebastian —he so shmart de Injins can’t cotch him.” * But Katrina ?” “ She so purty dat nobody never didn’t hurt her, and so ' nobody won't never say nottin’ to her—so she’s all right.” “She’s never had a pack of red-skins chasing her,” re- plied Crockett, who was any thing but satisfied with the sit- uation of things. “ Dat is why dey won't do it, den, no more.” “ But, why are they hanging back so ?” wy “Dey ain’t hangin’ pack—-dey hang forward. dinks Katrina ish lookin’ fur de cow, Sebastian ish lookin trina, and te cow ish lookin’ fur me, aud we ish lookin’ fur ~~ all dem, and so we all keeps lookin’—yaw! yaw !” “It seems to me we may as well wait here till they come —there ain't any other Ba they can get to the settlement is there ?” se Yaw. ” “ How ?” “ Dey kin go down come round frough de Mulf of Gexico, and come dat way—but den it ish furder dan dis way isn’t?" ve “Is there any other straight path ?” . “ Dey kin go on Woder sight de creek.” “T didn’t know there was another path. Just as like as _ not they they have taken that and are several miles ahead.” _ “TI don’t dinks 30.” —~ “ Why not?” “’Cause we hain’t heard de cow-bell —dat go jingle- jingle.” | “ Let’s go ahead, for T don’t see any use in waiting here.” The hunter felt some impatience at the belief that he had dallied away somuci: time, when it was more than prolab'e that the parties for Whom he was waiting had long since posed by on the other side, - Accordingly he started his horse.2long the path again, Hans Bungslager following close in the rear. _“ So his animile was skeared by a b’ar,” mused the Tennes- _ _ ~ . > « " comilchooks:com