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With a rope around his forelegs and through the ring in the bridle bit, we asked no further favors, but snaked him ignominiously over to the farther side and reharnessed him into the team. The afternoon was more than half spent when we reached the first bogged cattle, and by the time the wagon overtook us we had several tied up and ready for the mule team to give us a lift.
Whitford " Kitty bogged down. Beatrice blushed. Little dimples came out with her smile. "I think I'd better let Clay explain." "We were married two days ago, Kitty." "What!" shouted the Runt. "We intended to ask you both to the wedding, but when Johnnie proposed to abduct Miss Whitford, I thought it a pity not to let him. So we " Johnnie fell on him and beat him with both fists.
Speculation of this kind must not be indulged in; time enough to cry out when the troubles come. Providence was with us as guide, and across the lake we dodged from sand-spit to sand-spit until we had beaten it, and not one animal was bogged. The night of the 10th our supply was down to three gallons.
Rising head and shoulders above the crowd and well in front stood Jefferson Creede, the foreman of the Dos S; and as a portly gentleman in an unseasonable linen duster dropped off the Pullman he advanced, waving his hand largely. "Hullo, Judge!" he exclaimed, grinning jovially. "I was afraid you'd bogged down into a washout somewhere!"
"What do you think we'd better do? I'm for staying to the road." "If it wasn't so blamed muddy we could go across the fields," said Shadrack, "but we'd get bogged again." "The road's our one chance," added Wilson. "Let's get to work." During the remainder of the afternoon they worked their way up along the edge of the road, hiding in the bushes time after time.
I believe the inventor, Mr. Nissen, is an American and here's my hand to him as an ally who maybe saved me from rheumatism, and I am sure thousands of boys from the other side of the world bless his name continually. The whole brigade was practically bogged when we came to move forward.
'Bridger an' me makes snow-shoes an' goes slidin' an' pesterin' 'round all fine enough. But the pore animals in the valley gets a rough time. "'It's a fact; Bridger an' me finds a drove of buffalos bogged down in the snow, I reckons now thar's twenty thousand of 'em, and never a buffalo can move a wheel or turn a kyard.
Brown was puzzling himself to conceive how a fox-chase could take place among hills, where it was barely possible for a pony, accustomed to the ground, to trot along, but where, quitting the track for half a yard's breadth, the rider might be either bogged or precipitated down the bank. This wonder was not diminished when he came to the place of action.
Hope you're bogged down in jawbreakers the rest of the summer. Serves yuh right, but you needn't think you can take it out on me. And," he draped himself around the door jamb to add pointedly, "you should worry about the tulip song. If I'm willing to stand for you yawping day and night about the sun growin' co-old, and all that bunk " "Oh, beat it, and shut up!"
Yet there were leaden days, when half the prospect seemed to be seen through palisades of rain; when the slight incline between the terraces became a tumultuous cascade, and the surest hoofs slipped on trails of unctuous mud; when cattle were bogged a few yards from the highway, and the crossing of the turnpike road was a dangerous ford.
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