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The Scalp-Hunters choose

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[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters I 283: ‘Thar’s one kind o’ shootin’, said he, ‘that’s jest as easy as fallin’ off a log.’.
at easy as falling off a log, adj.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters II 277: ‘Wagh! what cares he for us, now that he has got what he wanted?’ ‘Not a niggur’s d--n.’.
at not give a damn, v.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters III 130: Tare an ages!
at tare an’ ages!, excl.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters III 189: Them Navaghs is mighty cute, and not easily bamfoozled.
at bamfoozle, v.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters II 170: A rid skin, by japers!
at bejabers!, excl.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters III 32: We kin go yonder, and fight them till they’ve had a bellyful.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters II 5: He had been a soldier in a frontier post – one of uncle Sam’s ‘Sky-blues’.
at sky blue, n.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters III 178: It was no longer a question of speed [...] Did my horse possess the ‘bottom’?
at bottom, n.1
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters II 137: Why, Cap., yur tumble has surely dumbfoundered ye.
at cap, n.1
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters I 279: Whether we fired symultainyously, or extraneously, or cattawampously ain’t the flappin o’ a beaver’s tail to me.
at catawampusly, adv.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters II 164: He lay, back uppermost. He was naked to the breech-clout.
at clout, n.1
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters II 190: In trath, Misther Gowdey; an’ it’s meself ’ud go far this blissed night for a dhrap o’ the crayter.
at drop of the creature (n.) under creature, the, n.
[UK] M. Reid The Scalp-Hunters III 98: I am ’ithout eyther beast or weepun. D--t--n!
at damnation!, excl.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters II 134: That’s a dod-rotted lie!
at dod-rotted (adj.) under dod, n.1
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters I 288: Dog-gone it man! make haste then.
at doggone, v.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters I 89: I’m dog-gone, Jim, if I don’t feel queery about hyar.
at I’ll be doggoned! (excl.) under doggone, v.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters I 304: What’s the dratted rumpus?
at dratted, adj.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters II 137: I would think less o’ these other dummies not seein’ at a glimp how we kin do it.
at dummy, n.1
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters II 211: Gee! Jim, look yonder.
at gee!, excl.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters I 90: Go it hoe and toe! Old Virginny neber tire!
at go it, v.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters II 143: Four’s gobs for us! [...] Keep the rest.
at gob, n.3
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters II 65: Great Gollys! we will be froze in half the time. [Ibid.] 121: Gollies! was it winter?
at golly!, excl.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters I 305: Hang it, man! let’s see the shot.
at hang it (all)! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters II 6: Shet up yur heads, an’ wait, will ye?
at shut one’s head (v.) under head, n.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters III 181: Geehosaphat! hyers a feller ridin’ ’ithout eyther saddle or bridle!
at jehoshaphat!, excl.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters I 116: I will be back in a jiffy.
at jiffy, n.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters II 126: I tuk a wheen o’ stones [...] an’ killed the hul kit on’ em.
at whole kit, n.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters II 44: At thet very spring the Injuns ’ll cool thur lappers.
at lapper, n.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters II 10: ‘Shet up yur meat-traps,’ answered he.
at meat trap (n.) under meat, n.
[UK] M. Reid Scalp-Hunters II 124: ‘No-o,’ slowly drawled Rube, apparently ‘miffed’ at being thus interrupted.
at miffed, adj.
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