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Chapter Seventeen. The Pursuit.
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“Wapaw must have worked hard, for we should have overhauled1 him by this time,” said Walter to his uncle on the evening of the next day, as they plodded2 steadily3 along through the snow.
“I would give up the pursuit,” said Robin4, somewhat gloomily, “for it’s losin’ time that might be better spent on another search; but it won’t do to leave the crittur, for if he’s badly wounded he may die for want o’ help.”
“Guess he can’t be very bad, else he’d niver travel so fast,” observed Stiff, who, now that the chief murderer was punished, did not care much to go in search of the wounded Indian.
“When a man thinks a band o’ yellin’ redskins are follerin’ up his trail,” said Slugs, “he’s pretty sure to travel fast, wounded or not wounded—leastways if he’s able. But I don’t think we’ll have to go much farther now, for I’ve noticed that his stride ain’t so long as it was, and that’s a sartin sure sign that he’s failin’; I only hope he won’t go under before we find him.”
“Niver a fear o’ that,” said Larry O’Dowd, with a grin. “I’ve seed him as far gone as any one iver I comed across, wi’ starvation; but the way that fellow walked into the grub when he got the chance was wonderful to behold5! I thought he’d ait me out o’ the house entirely6; and he put so much flesh on his bones in a week or two that he was able to go about his business, though he warn’t no fatter when he began to ait than a consumptive darnin’ needle. True for ye—it’s naither walkin’, starvin’, nor cowld, as’ll kill Wapaw.”
“What does the Black Swan think?” inquired Robin.
“We shall see Wapaw when the sun is low to-morrow,” replied the Indian.
“Mayhap we shall,” quoth Robin, “but it
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v.彻底检查( overhaul的过去式和过去分词 );大修;赶上;超越 | |
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v.沉重缓慢地走(路)( plod的过去式和过去分词 );努力从事;沉闷地苦干;缓慢进行(尤指艰难枯燥的工作) | |
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