"Me? Oh I got a kind of pain in my shoulder . I thought sitting up would rest it."
"I'm Old Hank, the Trapper, Red Chief's captive, and I'm to be scalped at daybreak."
"In the other he had the sharp case knife we used for slicing bacon and he was industriously and realistically trying to take Bill's scalp".
"He immediately christened me snake eye the spy, and announced that when his braves returned from the warpath, I was to be broiled at the stake at the rising of the sun."
"I dozed off for a while, but along toward sunup I remembered that Red Chief had said I was to be burned at the stake at the rising of the sun".
"What you getting up so soon for Sam?"
"You're a liar!" You're afraid. You was to be burned at sunrise, and you was afraid he'd do it!"
"Do you think anybody will pay out money to get a little imp like that back home?"
"Sure, said I. "A rowdy kid like that is just the kind that parents dote on. Now."