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And from the straight line of their retreating flight I like to think that the rest of the flock never came back, but took their toll from the wider fields of the plateau above. Next day we reentered the game-haunted wilderness, nor did we see any more native villages until many weeks later we came into the country of the Wakamba. Our first sight of the Tana River was from the top of a bluff.

The hatred of the hunted diggers made it quite unsafe to send out a small number of police and soldiers, so there came forth at irregular intervals a formidable body of horse and foot, armed with carbines, swords, and pistols. This morning they marched rapidly along the track towards the White Hills, but wheeling to the left up the bluff they suddenly appeared at the head of Picaninny Gully.

It was the beginning of the Glacial Period or Ice Age, when a large portion of the United States is supposed to have been covered by a sheet of ice. The ice is believed to have entered South Dakota from the northeast and its drift across the state limited by a line so closely following the present course of the Missouri River that many of us would be inclined to consider it the western bluff.

Mart answered, with an amused smile. "Well, now, I don't know. I think by the hour." "Ye're makin' a big bluff, Mart. We're properly impressed," said his sister. "Go pay him off, and save the money." McArdle put in a query. "You must have a good thing out there?" "'Tis enough to pay me carriage hire," answered Mart.

His little house could be seen a long way off; it stood out on a bare place, half a mile from the village, on the 'bluff, as it is called, like a hawk on a ploughed field. Tchertop-hanov's homestead consisted of nothing more than four old tumble-down buildings of different sizes that is, a lodge, a stable, a barn, and a bath-house.

Av ye'll have a dhrink wid me an' my friends here I'll take ut kindly until we can find some betther cause for grievance." The young man's tense figure relaxed. A smile broke over his face. "And I beg your pardon," he said heartily. "The fact is I was not laughing at you at all but at the way you two men called the bluff of that fellow who wanted the gun.

They had only two firearms for all the party: Mick's rifle which he carried, and his revolver, which he gave to Vaughan. Their chief weapon was "bluff", for a party of seven could do nothing against nearly a hundred armed natives, except surprise them long enough to let their prisoner escape.

"No, I wouldn't put it that way," Cub replied; "but I don't like to see anybody make a bluff at anything and not make good. Now, we've started out with a glorious bluff at some very clever rascality, and it looks as if it's going to prove to be just an ordinary hazing affair." "It looks to me like a very extraordinary affair, whether it was hazing or not," returned his father.

Buck, you know I'm always outspoken and straight to the point. No underhanded bluff for me. I'm going to sue you for ten thousand." "Crack 'em down, gents!" remarked Elkanah, grimly.

"It couldn't have been a donkey braying either, because we know how they drag it out. Besides unless I'm mistaken the sound came straight from the direction of the house itself." "Sure it did," said Bluff, as they started to pass through the gap that could be made by swinging the loose board aside. "I wonder if old Aaron learned of our being there, and gave that yawp to show his anger.