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Peaceful seems the sandy landscape where you are, glad the very blackjacks, happy the curs, blessed the sheep, interesting the chin-whiskered clodhopper, innocent the fool darkey, blessed the mule, for it knows no war. And you have your mother be happy, boy; you don't know how much you have to be thankful for. Europe is ceasing to be interesting except as an example of how-not-to-do-it.
"That's Max Moebus," observed a train hand respectfully, as Duane passed close to him; "I guess there's more billions into that there private car than old Pip's crowd can dig out of their pants pockets on pay day." A little, dry-faced, chin-whiskered man with a loose pot-belly and thin legs came waddling along, followed by two red-capped negroes with his luggage.
They're a thrifty people, and they wouldn't like to see a good door destroyed." Harry beat a resounding tattoo until the door was suddenly thrown open and the short figure of a man of middle years, chin-whiskered and gray, but holding an old-fashioned musket in his hands, confronted them. "Put down that gun, Herr Schneider! Put it down at once!" said Dalton, who had already levelled his pistol.
A chin-whiskered man in Walla-Walla, carrying a line of hope as excess baggage, had grubstaked us; and there we was in the foothills pecking away, with enough grub on hand to last an army through a peace conference. Along one day comes a mail-rider over the mountains from Carlos, and stops to eat three cans of greengages, and leave us a newspaper of modern date.
And when Bonaventure asked the apparition the untiring question to which so many hundreds had answered No, the tall man looked down upon the questioner, a bright smile suddenly lighting up the unlovely chin-whiskered face, and asked: "Makes a fiddle thess talk an' cry?" "Yes." "Well, he hain't been gone from hyer two weeks." It was true.
The Bareback Queen of the World was startled out of her day-dream to find her "Arabian steed" rubbing noses with a ragged-coated horse hitched to a battered farm-wagon, in which sat a chin-whiskered old fellow who grinned expansively and slyly winked at her over the horses' heads. "It's all right, ma'am, I won't let on," he said.
A chin-whiskered man in Walla-Walla, carrying a line of hope as excess baggage, had grubstaked us; and there we was in the foothills pecking away, with enough grub on hand to last an army through a peace conference. Along one day comes a mail-rider over the mountains from Carlos, and stops to eat three cans of greengages, and leave us a newspaper of modern date.
"Tobe Gryce, ye air fairly demented," exclaimed the register a chin-whiskered, grizzled old fellow, sitting on a stump and hugging his knee with a desolate, bereaved look "talkin' 'bout the stray-book, an' all the records gone! What will folks do 'bout thar deeds, an' mortgages, an' sech? An' that thar keerful index ez I had made ez straight ez a string all cinders!"
What stopped them short in their tracks was a spectacle the spectacle of an elderly chin-whiskered man, very drunk and disorderly, riding in on a paint pony. "Father!" breathed Miss Dale in a horror-stricken whisper. And as she spoke Father uttered a string of cheerful whoops and topped off with a long pull at a bottle he had been brandishing in his right hand.
To be sure, it continued to handle such side lines as taffy-haired ingénues from the country, set adrift among the wiles and pitfalls of a cruel city; such incidentals as soft-pie comickers and chin-whiskered by-Hectors; such necessary by-products as rarely beautiful he-juveniles with plush eyelashes and the hair combed slickly back off the forehead in the approved Hudson seal effect splendid, manly youths these, who might have dodged a draft or two but never yet had flinched from before the camera's aiming muzzle.
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