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At each riata length, all down the line, a vaquero sat quiet upon his horse, a living fence-post holding the riata fence tight and straight.
"But you are sure you went back?" "It didn't feel back," said David. "You couldn't have been mistaken about going back?" "No." "In what part of town were you when I found you on the fence-post?" "Home," said David. "Why were you crying?" "I was feeling bad." "And why was that?" "I was scart." "Of what?" "Everything was so mixed up." "You ran away, though, didn't you?
In January or February come the great ice-storms, when every branch, blade, and trunk is coated with frozen rain, so that you can touch nothing truly. The spikes of the pines are sunk into pear-shaped crystals, and each fence-post is miraculously hilted with diamonds. If you bend a twig, the icing cracks like varnish, and a half-inch branch snaps off at the lightest tap.
March with its blustering winds had departed, and now April's showers and sunshine were gladdening the hearts of the settlers. Patches of green freshened the slopes of the hills; the lilac bushes showed tiny leaves, and the maple-buds were bursting. Yesterday a blue-bird surest harbinger of spring had alighted on the fence-post and had sung his plaintive song.
This, remember, was the fourth day since the Kid rode down through the little pasture and stood on a piece of fence-post so that he could fasten the gate. Men had given up hope of finding him alive and unharmed. They searched now for his body.
Lester?" he added anxiously. "Godfrey's capable of getting a story out of a fence-post." "No, I'm quite sure I didn't tell him anything else. I only listened to his theory with great interest." "And assented to it?" "I said I thought it plausible." An electric shock seemed to run around the room. "That's it!" cried Rankin. "That's what he wanted. Now, it isn't his theory any more. It's yours.
His ranch was a little two-room box house in a grove of hackberry trees in the lonesomest part of the sheep country. His household consisted of a Kiowa Indian man cook, four hounds, a pet sheep, and a half-tamed coyote chained to a fence-post. He owned 3,000 sheep, which he ran on two sections of leased land and many thousands of acres neither leased nor owned.
The hired man heard the racket and found him hanging by his pantaloons on a fence-post. Part of the tripod was about his neck; his hair was full of ground glass and he was murmuring something about a trolley-car. They put him to bed and the first thing he said after he came to, was, 'Did they arrest the motorman?
'Up at the dog-town, I answered laconically. 'Kill him yourself? How come you to have a weepon? 'We'd been up to Russian Peter's, to borrow a spade for Ambrosch. Otto shook the ashes out of his pipe and squatted down to count the rattles. 'It was just luck you had a tool, he said cautiously. 'Gosh! I wouldn't want to do any business with that fellow myself, unless I had a fence-post along.
Gaunt, tall, stoop-shouldered, gray, walking the same path each day, home, court-house, club, neighbors, home, with a grapevine stick as thick as a fence-post in his hand such was her father.
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