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Except for one or two railroad hands waiting by the caboose of a freight train, nobody was about. The town looked strangely dreary. Yet Lister knew it stood for all the relief from labor in the stinging alkali dust one could get.
"After these results I could no longer doubt that some saline matter existing in the agate tubes had been the source of the acid matter capable of precipitating nitrate of silver and much of the alkali.
For the rest, the boys wore leather "chaps," blue shirts open at the neck, with loosely knotted red handkerchiefs about their throats. The latter were both to keep the sun off the back of their necks and to serve as protection for their mouths and nostrils against the dust in case of necessity, as for example, when they struck a patch of burning, biting alkali.
"Hurry up," she commanded, "so I can be in at the death. Remember, I'm a doctor. They're tying him to his horse he looks half dead with fright." Inwardly she added: "He overacts the part dreadfully." The little cavalcade in the coulee fired a spectacular volley into the air and swept down the slope like a dry-weather whirlwind across a patch of alkali ground.
His manner, however, to the boys seemed to imply that he was holding some information in reserve and this fact at once increased their curiosity. "What have you got?" asked George. "I have nothin' much, but an albuminoid rib." "What kind of a rib?" "That's what you call it. If it isn't that it's alkali." "What kind of a rib is an alkali rib?" asked John.
From the heaving sides of the ponies, plastered with the gray alkali of the desert, clouds of steam were rising. Their riders, with mouths screened from the biting dust with red handkerchiefs, were seemingly engaged in a race for the willow clump where water and shade awaited them. "Yip-yip-y-e-e-e-e-e-e!"
"Now, these two tests are in harmony. The one shows the absence of limestone, and the other shows the presence of acidity, and consequently the need of limestone to correct or neutralize the acidity, for limestone itself is an alkali." "But limestone soils are not alkali soils, are they?" asked Mr. West.
Esau hadn't been on the ranch a week before he made trouble with the proprietor and got from Stewart the red-hot blessing he deserved. Then Esau got madder and skulked away down the valley among the little sage brush hummocks and white alkali wasteland, to nurse his wrath.
Jimmy rested quietly for a few seconds and then slowly arose, dusting the alkali from him. "Th' wall-eyed piruts," he muttered, and then scratched his head for a way to "play hunk." As he gazed sorrowfully at the saloon he heard a snicker from behind him. He, thinking it was one of his late tormentors, paid no attention to it. Then a cynical, biting laugh stung him.
If you wish to clarify sugar and water, you are about to boil, it is well to stir in the white of one egg, while cold; if put in after it boils, the egg is apt to get hardened before it can do any good. Those who are fond of soda powders will do well to inquire at the apothecaries for the suitable acid and alkali, and buy them by the ounce, or the pound, according to the size of their families.
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