"Say, sheriff d'yer mean ter insinuate as I'm a liar?"
"Oh, no. I'm too frank to insinuate what I know to be a fact, I say it right out, openly and plainly," laughed Timberlake.
Tim eyed him with a mystified look.
He did not know whether to accept this reply as a direct insult or to take it as a belief in his veracity.
"Wot d'yer mean?" he asked.
"Simply this–you are the most outrageous old liar I ever came in contact with!" replied Timberlake.
"Oh!" cried Tim, in horror. "Listen ter him! You wait till I finish this ere yarn, an' see if I'm tellin' ther truth."
"I'm afraid I won't live long enough to wait until you finish that story," dryly answered the sheriff. "It would be too long a wait on my part, and—"
But Fritz interrupted him just there by shouting:
"Dere dey go–dere dey go!"