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Then she walked straight back to my table. "I can't help it," she said, laughing still, and her delightful, insolent nose well up; "how can I behave myself when a man goes on as you do?" A nice white curly dog followed her, and she stroked his ears. "Your behavior is very agreeable to me," I remarked. "You'll allow me to say that you're not invited to criticise it.
"What do I get for bringing good news?" "I didn't say it was good news." "Sho! Your big eyes are shouting it." "Was that the news from the horse ranch?" "That's part of it, but there is more. Sam and Curly are on their way to Saguache to spend the Fourth of July. Sam is going for another reason, but I'm not sure yet what it is." "You mean ?"
Her short curly brown hair was done up properly; her pink and white complexion was as clear as cream, now that the dust of the road was gone; her dark eyes were glowing with the wonder and interest of nineteen years, and she was, all in all, a most enticing bit of femininity.
"No," was the brief and absent-minded reply. Reynolds said no more, but watched the four men. His attention was chiefly centered upon one who was facing him, and who was doing most of the talking. He was a young man, with a dark moustache and black curly hair. He played with keen interest and in a lofty dominating manner.
"You did not enter the thicket?" "Only a few feet, after the dog took my cap." "How about the cap?" "My retriever, Curly, was playing with me. I was teasing him by waving the cap before him. He managed to get hold of it and ran with it into the thicket. In a moment or so he came back without it. I could not find it, nor could I induce him to retrieve it." "When was this?" "About two o'clock."
A young Bagobo described his idea of a buso as follows: "He has a long body, long feet and neck, curly hair, and black face, flat nose, and one big red or yellow eye. He has big feet and fingers, but small arms, and his two big teeth are long and pointed. Like a dog he goes about eating anything, even dead persons."
I thought that his voice trembled over the last words; and when he went behind a rock and hid himself, I knew that he had gone away to cry, and that he had been ashamed to cry where I could see him. "After a while I went to him. He was lying on his side, with his head upon his arm. His cap had fallen off, and the light wind was playing gently with his curly hair.
It is between them in size, measuring four feet from the ground to the top of the head, and two and a half feet from the ground to the shoulders. The neck is longer and more slender; and the wool is finer, short, and curly.
Two races were there, as wide as the poles apart the thin-lipped, straight-haired Arab and the thick-lipped, curly negro yet the faith of Islam had bound them closer than a blood tie.
She thought how bright the spotted cattle looked, how lithe and graceful the men, and then her eyes lighted as they always did when she beheld the horses of Last's Holding the horses of the Finger Marks. Billy rode Redbuck, Curly Drumfire, and they were princes of a royal blood, albeit Nature's strain alone.
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