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Used a dog train, whole of March. Tied myself up in bag of buffalo robes at night and made the huskies lie across it to keep me from freezing. Got so hot, every pore in my body was a spouting fountain, and in the morning that moisture would freeze my buckskin stiff. Couldn't stand that; so I tried sleeping with my head out of the bag and froze my nose six nights out of seven."
Her bare, brown head came up nearly to his shoulder. It was a small, pretty head, graceful, well held, and the thick hair on it was a shiny, soft brown. She wore it in a braid, rather untidily and tangled, he thought, and it was tied with a string of buckskin. Altogether her apparel proclaimed poverty. Jean let the conversation languish for a little.
At length he raised his head, and said: If I hadnt fastened the hounds with my own hands, with a fresh leash of green buckskin, Id take a Bible oath that I heard old Hector ringing his cry on the mountain. It is impossible, said Edwards; it is not an hour since I saw him in his kennel.
Storm coverings of buckskin were rolled above the outer windows and above the doorways which opened into the court. Here, when the moon rose over the lonely lodge and glinted peacefully in the tilled pool, Mic-co listened to the tale of his young guest. It was a record of bodily abuse, of passion and temptation, which few men may live to tell, but Mic-co neither condoned nor condemned.
"Give 'm hell, Laban," he encouraged. "Them's my sentiments." And as our train rolled on I continued to look back at Laban, standing in his stirrups by the baby's grave. Truly he was a weird figure, with his long hair, his moccasins, and fringed leggings. So old and weather-beaten was his buckskin shirt that ragged filaments, here and there, showed where proud fringes once had been.
I will give you coat and breeches for your rags." Thus generously supplied with clothes and other comforts by the good knight, and implicitly relying upon the honor of so kind-hearted a man, Israel cheered up, and in the course of two or three weeks had so fattened his flanks, that he was able completely to fill Sir John's old buckskin breeches, which at first had hung but loosely about him.
Grigsby, who was fingering the contents of a small canvas sack, evidently the property of the horseman. "You want to see gold? Take a look at it." Following his father, Charley peeped within. The canvas sack was half full of dull yellow a yellow like the yellow which the buckskin sack had contained, in St. Louis. However, this yellow was coarser. "Flake gold," announced Mr. Grigsby.
I believe I sweated a double handful of sweat -I know I did because it got in my eyes, and it was running down over my nose all the time; and you know my pants are tighter than any body else's Paris foolishness and the buckskin seat of them got wet with sweat, and then got dry again and began to draw up and pinch and tear loose it was awful but I never heard him sing.
And when you've done that, I'll tell you something more." "Oh, let's have it all, boss, now you're at it!" broke in Nixon. "We shan't have hysterics now. We're past that stage." Warden turned with a lightning movement and laid his hand upon the girl beside him. "Gentlemen," he said, "it's Fletcher Hill and not Buckskin Bill who's the boss of this valley.
They trudged down hill and up, scrambled through ravines, crossed brush and forest and swamps, they waded and swam, they ate the ripe berries and nuts of the October crop, managed to kill a squirrel and rabbit, now and again, with a rock or a club; their buckskin clothes and moccasins were worn to tatters, but they slept warm in sunny nooks: and all the nights they were pushing steadily on southward for the Ohio River and Louisville.
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