United States or Papua New Guinea ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
But young Burnet had scarcely checked his mustang, when the sound of someone riding his horse equally fast reached his ear, and the next instant Oscar Gleeson dashed beside him. "Howdy, Baby, is that you?" he asked, peering at the young man dimly seen in the scant yellow rays of the lantern. "Yes, Ballyhoo," was the reply; "I'm in trouble." "What is it?" "I've lost the herd."
"I reckon that was Ballyhoo Gleeson that let loose that partic'lar shot," said the cowboy with a chuckle; "I didn't know who it was running, but thought it was one of the varmints. Just afore that I was sure that I seed one of 'em and I let fly, shootin' on gineral principles as you might say.
"They must have heard the shot and his cry, and though we made things hum about them, they took time to look into it and bear the body away." "I wonder now whether that could have been Wygwind," said Avon, referring to the notorious leader of whom we have spoken. "No," was the decisive reply of Ballyhoo. "Why not?" "He is a powerful brave Injin, but plenty of his warriors can outrun him.
Industry has picked up, railroads are carrying more freight, farm prices are better, but I am not going to indulge in issuing proclamations of overenthusiastic assurance. We cannot ballyhoo ourselves back to prosperity. I am going to be honest at all times with the people of the country.
And the obvious reason is that nobody seems to take the trouble to get what might be proper bait for sailfish. Mullet is an easy bait to get and commands just as high a price as anything else, which, as a matter of fact, is highway robbery. With a bait like a ballyhoo or a shiner I could get ten bites to one with mullet. We trolled along at slow speed.
It was the accepted judgment of those present that the midget and the lout were staging a ballyhoo a "come-on" preliminary to the opening of the Kid Show. There was no applause as the little man outwitted his follower by an adroit dodge under the ticket wagon. No one tripped the lout as the race led through the assembled crowd.
She hailed them with an air of the bearer of important news, and as soon as they were ensconced in their corner with the cocoa safely bestowed on a stool at Patricia's right hand, she opened her heart. "Awful row in the Committee room," she announced gleefully. "Good old Greenie marched right in to the grave and reverend seniors while they were in session just now, and she gave them ballyhoo.
It looked as if Ballyhoo and Avon must be trampled to death, for they were directly in front of the rushing herd, but they swung their arms, holding each his rifle aloft, and shouted loud enough to be heard miles distant. The mustangs were a little nervous, but were used to such experiences, and they did not catch the contagion.
"I don't pretend to say we would not be frightened, but Dinah and I would feel secure inside, so long as there was no danger of the building being burned. I wonder whether Wygwind led this party." "I shouldn't be surprised if he did; he's one of the worst scamps that ever lived." "You're right," assented Ballyhoo. "I believe he led this gang, though a chap couldn't tell in the darkness.
Then I saw a smashing break of a sailfish coming out sideways, sending the water in white sheets. We slowed down the boat and got our baits overboard at once. I was using a ballyhoo bait hooked by a small hook through the lips, with a second and larger hook buried in the body. R. C. was using a strip of mullet, which for obvious reasons seems to be the preferred bait from Palm Beach to Long Key.
Word Of The Day