I knowed what he was goin' to do--skelp my father!
She put me up to it; we was goin' shares on the old lady's stuff."
Goin' west the mustang was foremost; you can tell that by the overlap.
'You shall do what else you like, my girl, but don't talk about goin' away from me.
That made the others mad an' they took after me, but 'Mord' he drops the head one jist when he's goin' to hit me.
There's an awful ruction goin' on, and you got to keep hoppin' if you're goin' to keep your balance on the top of it.
He was a man for peace and quiet, and everything was goin' smooth with the tribes of what we called the Beargrass Country, till one day, when he and my brothers, Mordecai--'Mord' was a big fellow for his age--and Josiah, a few years younger--was out in the clearin' with the oxen, haulin' logs down to the crick.