He went up the crick yesterday," returned Rope, looking quickly at the stray-man.
There's a right pretty stretch of country about fifteen miles up the crickthat you'd be tickled over.
I'm King Randerson, foreman of the Diamond H, up the crick a ways.
Fus' Chloe felt lack she 'd go right ober de crick en gib Jeff a piece er her min'.
He got up a pahty an' tuk de dawgs out an' follered de scen' down ter de crick an' los' it.
De water in dat crickwuz cl'ar in dem days, stidder bein' yallar lak it is now.
I loved the old place as a boy, and I know every crick and cranny and snake-hole in it.
Otherwise I shall procure a search-warrant, and myself examine your ruins, of which I know every crick and cranny.
There was a boilin' spring in there, an' a little crick run from it to the big cold crick.
Cain thought he'd put it over on me, 'count of my movin' my office where he'd have to waller acrost the crick to it.
I heard runnin' water, an' found a crick run right through the middle of that room, it was the biggest room of all.
Your brothers know every crick and corner of this warren, miles and miles; and could carry a sandhill among them.
Marse Alec growed all his corn on his Googer Crick plantation.
I cotch lots of grasshoppers and started fishin' in the crick runnin' through the pastur' and fust thing I knowed, the overseer was roundin' up all the other niggers to git the cows outen the cornfields!
I had some mighty good times in dat crick and I couldn't begin to count de duckin's I got dar and de whuppin's my Ma and Pa give me for stayin' so long.
Long Crick runned through our plantation and the river warn't no fur piece off.
We played with the white folkses chilluns and watched atter 'em but most of the time we played in the crick what runned through the pastur'.
Us dammed up dat little crick right back of whar de Seaboard Depot is now and it made a fine pool to swim in.
In hot weather chillun played on de crickand de best game of all was to play lak it was big meetin' time.
Us kept de watermelons in de crick 'til dey was ready to cut 'em.
Fus' Chloe felt lak she'd go right ober decrick en gib Jeff a piece er her min'.
I've swum in that crick so often that it was nothin' to me.
Again, you see the ground slopes off to the crick yonder.
It's jest this way, in Oak Crick country, you-all see!
Why, Sary says you-all went to Oak Crick to file papers and make sure that Montresor's claim is the same mine like Polly discovered up on the Trail.
Wall, then, Jeb diden' know a thing about the gold mine ner what you- all rode to Oak Crick fer, so Ah hed to explain.
They make pappy git on de mule and follow him down to de crick and watch him swim dat swif' muddly crick to de other side.
Does you know where Horse Crick (Creek) branch is, and where Wateree Crick is?
Sometime dat crick git up over de bank and I, to dis day, 'members one time pappy come in all wet and drenched wid water.
He talks dago to Caleb and Caleb gives him back jest plain straightCrick talk.
Down the crickerbout a mile Elhannon Howard lives.
Down the crick at the mines is a dago, a fur-reen-er and his folks from Bolony.
So I goes back to the bank of the crick and cut me a pole.
When Ma jined de church, dey had to break de ice in Beaver Dam Crick to baptize her.
Atter while I was standin' in de mayberry field a-lookin' crost Dry Fork Crickand dere was dem cows.
De mens went seinin' at night in Buffalo Crick what run thoo' Marse Jabe's place.
Her was so happy and shouted so loud, dey had to drag her out of de crick and take her way back in de woods to keep her from 'sturbin' de rest of de folks at de baptizin'.
De river and crick bofe run thoo' Miss Annie's plantation so us didn't have to ax for a pass evvy time us went a fishin'.
Evvybody else stood on de banks of de crick and jined in de singin'.
Grown folks seined for fish in Big Crick and Saluda River at night, 'cause dey couldn't git away f'um field wuk in de day.
I kin tie de happy-sak to de kote keerts, und den ole hoss, yu und me kin land on de tother side of de crick lak a kildee.
Und den I drapped back into de crick drownded to def.
I nebber seed a drounded nigger fore de bellion fell in all my born days, and now yer kaint fro yer hook in de crick fur a catfish yer aint skeered yu mout git tangled up wid a drounded nigger.
Joshua heaved one or more sighs as he blurted out in a drowsy way; "Dem dare hosses yu heerd down de rode, er blickerty blick, dun und got drownded to def in de crick last nite.
Don't know, mars Jon, came back the answer, Specks he is dun gone to de baptising in de crick sar.
Studdy yosef ole hoss, studdy yosef, ef yu draps inter dis heer crick und gits drounded, it's ergwine to bust up ebery scalyhorg in der souf.
Too bad this heah crick ain't big 'nough to float a nice bunch of supplies in, right now.
And that morning, while I had been laying by the crick and the rest of the town was seeing the fun, they had been took afore Squire Matthews and fined one hundred and twenty-five dollars apiece.
Right nigh the crick they was another road come out of the woods to the left-hand side, and switched into the road we was travelling, and used the same bridge to cross the crick by.
Jest about the middle, between the two hills, a crick meandered through the bottom land.
But before he reached the crick the whole man-hunt come busting through the woods, the dogs a-straining at their straps.
They was a crick about a hundred yards from our house, in the woods, and I went over there and laid down and watched it run by.
We crossed it and walked along a road that follered the crick bank closte fur quite a spell.
They was a good-sized crick at the edge of that little place, and on it an old-fashioned worter mill.
Ty said he had come to the conclusion that Olaf was set out for a kind of bait to draw him into trouble, which was why he had let him alone; but that he was short o' grass this season, and wanted Pearl Crick Spread bad.
This night me an' the Friar both went down to the crick and washed our feet.
Horace had the field glasses in his pocket; so when we had reached the place I thought would do, I set him to lookin' across the crick careful to see if he could see anything.
Up on the rim, the grass was burned to a crisp; but along the crick it was still green.
We buried the four Cross-branders across the crick and down stream from the lower ford, and we buried Tim Simpson just a little way above the upper ford.
The crick ran south in a gorge, and just below us it ran into Rock River, which came from the east and made a sharp turn to the south just where Spear Crick ran into it.
They had a good start, and so had time to cut the wire and cross the crick toward some broken land on the left.
The cliffs circled around to the crickon both sides, and the crick was so full o' rocks that the' was only two places a hoss could cross.
As soon as we had our camp arranged, he got me to take him over to Pearl Crick Spread to call on Olaf.
Just across from us on the other side o' the crick was Sholte's Knoll, and when the sun rose, I lined us up to be just in a direct line with it across the knoll.
We lay on the grass there, along Pearl Crick for some time without speakin'.
He said they were tied across the crick just above the upper ford; so I sent him for 'em full speed.
I tried carrying a load on my head, and got a crick in my neck and spine for days.
This crick is all alum, 'specially up at the head.
I sent it by Western Union to Sturgis, and then up Wolf Nose Crick by the Belle Fourche and Elsewhere Telephone Line.
Wolf Nose Crick smilin' like he'd swallered the canary, an' sends me to Chamberlain to see that the contract is carried out as fer as proper.
Dick, Hilda, Constance, Sylvia, and Mr. Crickwill go in the motor.
Indeed, the old gentleman reached his points before Mr. Crick had accomplished a feat vaguely described by himself as "getting the strength of the table.
