But Lon Camp was gifted with a more legal turn of mind than the others and he said, “Now holt on a mite . Ifn Dad an' Hughie really have gone an' claim-staked this here fountain, then I reckon they got a lawsome right to her. […]”

Six-and-twenty years of prison; the first seventeen years of it strict and hard, almost of the dungeon sort; the remainder, on his fairly abdicating, was in another Castle, that of Callundborg in the Island of Zealand, 'with fine apartments and conveniences,' and even 'a good bouse of liquor now and then,' at discretion of the old soul.

WFK White River - abbreviation for West Fork of White River

a furring of the tongue