"Did you hear my club ring on his head ?" "No, but I heard you yell.

You didn't strike him." "What's the reason I didn't?
I did, too, but it must have been a glancing blow, for if I had hit him fairly, I should have knocked him flatter than he knocked me.

I yelled just to frighten him." "I guess you succeeded, for I never saw a man run as he did.

He got away, and he took the meal and bacon with him.

They'll not do him any good, however, for he'll be in the calaboose by this time to-morrow, if there are men enough in the settlement to find him.