Bright idea of yours, them fires! I knew just where not to go.

After you left I hooked a horse.

If you'd had sense enough to go with the sheriff and eat your supper like a human being I'd 'a' hooked two horses, and Chris and me would now be getting farther and farther.

I don't want you ever to do that again.

Suppose Chris had killed me when I tried to knock him out?
Fine large name I would 'a' left for myself, wouldn't I ?" "If you had fought it out with us," said Breslin musingly, "you would have been killed--both of you; and you would have killed others.