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Fire asks for no better playground, and with incredible swiftness a wall of flame sprang up, crackling and roaring as it spread out fan-wise. She knew, as did I, that the men would back-fire. But while this would save them from the flames it would at the same time remove their cover, and my rifle could then have a whole man to bite at instead of merely his head and shoulders, or less.
Then, as if remembering some particular incident, they both laughed aloud and said, "Yes, and sometimes they use us as the back-fire! We trade fifty-fifty." Blue-Star Woman sat with her chin in the palm of one hand with elbow resting in the other. She rocked herself slightly forward and backward.
But we saw him start one fire; didn't we?" "Yes, but of course he could claim that he was starting a back-fire, just as we did." "Huh!" Dave mused. "I didn't think of that. But I'm sure Len did start the big blaze, anyhow. He wanted to either stampede our cattle, or burn some of them, and you can't make me think any differently." "Oh, I'm not trying to," said Mr. Bellmore.
Everyone was supposed to carry matches; no child was allowed to leave home without matches and instructions to back-fire if he saw a fire coming. Heine sat down and wiped the sweat from his face with the sleeve of his little shirt. "I look first behind when I start. Can't no prairie fire come till I get here." "But with these hot winds " We watched constantly for the first sign of smoke.
If we were not in this rarified atmosphere we could fly on the cylinders that are firing all right, but this atmosphere would not support us." "Do you think it is anything serious?" asked the professor. "I can't tell yet," was the grave reply, "that explosion sounded like a back-fire and that may be all that's the matter.
That consolation was merely a back-fire in the rest of the conflagration that raged in him. It was a dull morning, somber and cold. When he stamped up the broad walk from the gate of the Corson mansion he beheld the boarded windows of the ballroom, and the spectacle added to his sense of chill. But his anger was not cooled.
Then then what did I hear?" She asked the question of Burke, and, as she asked it, recoiled suddenly, as if he had struck her. "P'raps you got a back-fire," he suggested, reassuringly. "You come down the steep hill up there, didn't you?" Doris pulled herself together, shrugged her shoulders, and resolutely smiled at him.
Thousands of people have tried to describe the noise of a shell, but no man can know what it is like unless he can put himself into a trench to hear the original thing. There is the metallic roar of waves breaking just before the rain, there is the whistle of wind through the trees, there is the rumble of a huge traction engine, and there is the sharp back-fire of a motor car.
Shortly the flare of this torch lighted up their refuge for a dozen paces about them. In the illumination of it, moving it from place to place, he gathered dry fire wood and with his axe cut down green spruce for the smouldering back-fire that would last until morning.
It occurred to Dave that if the wind changed suddenly and heightened, it would sweep a back-fire round him and cut off the retreat of his crew. He sent a weary lad back to keep watch on it and report any change of direction in that vicinity. After which he forgot all about chances of danger from the rear.
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