On killing the second enemy he paints his left leg (that is, the leggin) of a reddish-brown.
See the goney, how his pencil is a leggin' it off, for dear life.
The leggin is a buckskin or cloth covering for the leg and thigh, as of the pantaloon.
They're only goin' to stretch you over the log and tan you eight or ten times with the leggin's.
But what the—— Meanwhile I was leggin' it down towards the village.