'Twere something to drink out of a bottle.

I sees you drinkin' it." "Let the kid go, Bill," laughed Hank, who until now had kept silent.
"We were all thinkin' 'twere Lem's silver.

I'll tell un 'twere not the silver but somethin' else that you takes from the Captain that you were hidin' in the cache," said Jamie hopefully.
"You goin' to tell that! You heard what we said, and you goin' to blab it ?" the man roared in a rage.
"Aye, sir, I'll just tell the others so's they'll not be thinkin' 'tis Lem's silver," said Jamie innocently.
"The others?
Who's 'the others' ?" demanded Bill.
"Doctor Joe and the other scouts," Jamie explained.
"'Doctor Joe and the other scouts,'" quoted the big lumberman.

"Who's this here Doctor Joe?
And who's the other scouts ?" "He's Doctor Joe! Everybody knows Doctor Joe!" explained Jamie, quite astonished that any one should ask who Doctor Joe might be.

"The scouts be the other lads of the Bay, sir." "Well, this here Doctor Joe, whoever he is, and these here other scouts, whoever they be, better keep out'n our business and mind their own," roared the man.