skite

I killed a man at Graspan; I told the camp that night; An' of all the lies that ever I told That was the poorest skite.

"Perhaps you think I'm off on the skite again, but I'm not."

His "skite" had cost him a good deal of money, and he intended to make good some of the loss by economising on his marriage.

So they hunted and they hal-looed; And the next thing they did sight, Was a great big bull-dog chasing them, And a farmer hollering "Skite!"

Here is the nest, in under a bit of weedy bank, and yonder is the bird himself—the yellow-hammer, skite, or yellow bunting—looking as gay as a hornet, for well he knows that I will not disturb his treasures.