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We hastened to secure our animals, and then cautiously entered what appeared to be a large crack between the rocks; but, upon nearing the end of it, we distinctly heard a deep, angry growl. It was so dark within, that, upon this protest of-its occupant, we deemed it prudent to retreat. "We've got to git the critter out, someway," said Jerry, "and the sooner we go about it, the better for us."
As the three or four hundred head that made up his entire earthly possession drifted obediently in, the old man rode up to Creede and Hardy and waved his hand expansively. "Thar, boys," he said, "thar's the results of peace and kindness. Nary a critter thar that I heven't scratched between the horns since the day his maw brought him down to the salt lick.
Sylvester, plainly annoyed, did not reply. But Captain Elisha's concern was evident. "The poor critter!" he exclaimed. "What did you do?" "The last I saw of him he was sitting in the mud, looking at the upset. I didn't linger. Peters took the wheel, and we beat it. Lucky the cop didn't spot the license number. Might have cost me fifty. They've had me up for speeding twice before.
I mean it's a positive fact somebody has been putting that story about." "If I knawed the critter, male or female " Nicky-Nan gripped his stick. Miss Oliver could not help admiring his demeanour, his manly indignation. The man had fine features, too a touch of ancestry. She grew bolder.
"Oh! that's it, eh?" said Wycoff. "A knowing critter, that. He's got the instincts of a woman, and I ain't sure but he knows as much as a man. Well, I hope Hank is dead, anyhow." "Oh, don't say so, Mr. Wycoff," said Little Wolf, every particle of color forsaking her face. "Well, now if I ain't beat," said the rough man, "I thought you would be tickled to dance on Hank's grave."
I've often reflected what a massy it was that ar never come to nothin', for he's a poor drunken critter now." "Well, for my part," said Miss Roxy, fixing her eyes critically on the boat that was just at the landing, "I should say the ways of a maid with a man was full as particular as any of the rest of 'em. Do look at Sally Kittridge now.
Steve Tracy was sayin' only this mornin' as you kin git more pace an' bring yer pony in fresher 'n any rider along the hull Salt Lake Trail; an' I just guess Steve was right. Say, what's the matter wi' the saddle? Ain't you satisfied? Don't it fit the critter proper?" Kiddie was in the act of mounting. He turned to Cully with a light laugh. "Fits him like a glove," he answered.
"When I think of what I was tryin' to make that poor critter do," said Cap'n' Sproul, absent-mindedly kicking a loosened clod into the hole, "I'm ashamed of myself. I reckon he's better off down there than up here. I don't wish him back." "If accused wish to say anything in their own defence it will be heard," declaimed Squire Alcander, advancing from the gathering throng.
Old Percy told me in confidence he hadn't had a real friend for years before. And I liked him, you bet. We all has got our faults why, even Mrs. Scraggs isn't free from 'em but you scratch them off the top of Percival and you found a white man the most trusting little critter in God and man, the kindest-hearted and the best-natured that ever lived.
Indeed, in a general way, I praise other folks' beasts, and keep dark about my own. Says I, when I meet Blue Nose mounted, that's a real smart horse of yourn, put him out, I guess he'll trot like mad. Well, he lets him have the spur, and the critter does his best, and then I pass him like a streak of lightning with mine. The feller looks all taken aback at that.
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