"Here has the livelong night gone by, and he out-lying on the prairie,
when his hand and his rifle might both have been wanted in a brush
with the Siouxes, for any right he had to know the contrary."
"Spare your breath, good man," retorted his wife; "be saving of your
breath; for you may have to call long enough for the boy before he
will answer!"
"It ar' a fact, that some men be so womanish, as to let the young
master the old! But, you, old Esther, should know better than to think
such will ever be the nature of things in the family of Ishmael Bush."
"Ah! you are a hectorer with the boys, when need calls! I know it
well, Ishmael; and one of your sons have you driven from you, by your
temper; and that, too, at a time when he is most wanted."
"Father," said Abner, whose sluggish nature had gradually been
stimulating itself to the exertion of taking so bold a stand, "the
boys and I have pretty generally concluded to go out on the search of
Asa. We are disagreeable about his camping on the prairie, instead of
coming in to his own bed, as we all know he would like to do.
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