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Fayal is not an expensive place. One pays six dollars a week at an excellent hotel, and there is nothing else to spend money on, except beggars and donkeys. For a shilling an hour one can go to ride, or, as the Portuguese phrase perhaps circuitously expresses it, go to walk on horseback on a donkey, dar um passeio a cavallo n'um burro.
The burro was packed with a prospector's outfit startlingly real in its pathetic meagerness. Old Applehead was picking his way among rocks so hot that he could hardly bear to lay his bare hand upon them, tough as that hand was with years of exposure to heat and cold alike.
When we reached our old camp in Barber Shop Canyon we were all glad to see Haught's lost burro waiting for us there. Not a scratch showed on the shaggy lop-eared little beast. Haught for once unhobbled a burro and set it free without a parting kick. Nielsen too had observed this omission on Haught's part. Nielsen was a desert man and he knew burros.
I begin to savvy the burro: that's the proper phrase, isn't it? And what are our chances?" "We have about one in a hundred, as near as I could make out from Mr. Callowell's statement of the case. The C. G. R. people are moving heaven and earth to obstruct us in the canyon. If they can delay the work a little longer, the weather will do the rest.
Cone's generous ears seemed suddenly to quiver, almost they went forward like those of a startled burro. A voice obstinate, cantankerous a voice that could belong to no one on earth but old Mr. Penrose, was engaged outside in a wrangle with a taxi-cab driver! Before Mr. Cone could get around the desk and at the door to greet him, Mr.
He was headed for the mine when his burro was shot and we had to leave his outfit thanks to Cochise. But he knows where to find the lost lode. Got it from Cripple Sim back East. It's somewhere over near Triple Butte. You see now why I thought you'd be glad to have me bring Jack in as a partner?" The red face of the trader fairly glowed with geniality. He held out his beefy hand to Lennon.
After a considerable interval of time, four of their number mounted, and, collecting the ten beeves, mule, and burro, which had been grazing near by, drove them up and down in front of the camp, beyond rifle range. They made gestures for us to come and take them an invitation which, for obvious reasons, I declined to accept.
There was an old woman very old, very thin and very brown; a younger one, half a dozen youngsters, several dogs and finally the burro. The family were clad in every sort of decrepit garment. Polly thought she had rarely seen so pitiful an assemblage; and yet they did not look particularly unhappy, except the younger woman, who hung back and seemed to have been crying.
"I shall keep my eye on that particular burro," remarked Jimsy, "and if he ever runs away I shall gallop off in the opposite direction." But Mr. Bell explained that the explosive stuff was packed in such a manner that even the most violent shock would not set it off. "Still, we won't experiment," declared Roy.
Marshall. "Leave your animal here, if you want to. Charley tied the burro to the cabin. Mr. Marshall led the way over to the mill, which was abandoned and idle, and paused on the brink of a wide ravine that extended back to the mill wheel. The ravine was ragged and torn, its bottom bare to the rocks and its sides gashed by countless holes.
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