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"Dad!" she cried, hotly. This had grown to be an ordeal for Jorth. He seemed a victim of contending tides of feeling. Some will or struggle broke within him and the change was manifest. Haggard, shifty-eyed, with wabbling chin, he burst into speech. "See heah, girl. You listen. There's a clique of ranchers down in the Basin, all those you named, with Isbel at their haid.
"Snake, shore you seen a woman heah lately?" deliberately asked Wilson. "Reckon I did. Thet kid," replied Anson, dubiously. "Wal, you seen her go crazy, didn't you?" "Yes." "'An' she wasn't heah when you went huntin' fer her?" "Correct." "Wal, if thet's so, what do you want to blab about cougars for?" Wilson's argument seemed incontestable.
"Good-morning," returned the surgeon shortly. "Can you supply me with a glass of good drinking water? I left my flask at camp, and I am dry." "We has de best ob watah heah, sah," returned Old Ben, and proceeded to obtain a goblet. "Does yo' belong to de army?" "Yes, I am a surgeon attached to the Fifth Virginia regiment." The visitor gazed around him curiously. "Is this your boathouse?"
The following morning Pan and Joe rode up to the next boghole. They found seventeen mired cattle. "Nice an' deep," said Joe. "Damn these heah cows, allus pickin' out quicksand!" It took until noon to pull them out. Another boghole showed twenty-four more in deep. "How many more bogholes on Limestone?" asked Pan. "Only four an' the wust ones," replied Joe, groaning.
And the fact that he had known the households of both Oak Hill and Red Springs could count for a better reception now. At least they could try. "No use you gettin' into anything," Drew told the Texan. "You and Boyd go on! I'll take Croxton in and see if they'll take care of him." Kirby looked back down the road. "Don't see no hostile sign heah 'bouts," he drawled.
Chad shook his head, and the old man straightened himself a bit. "I'se sorry to heah it, suh," he said, with dignity, and he turned to his work. Miss Lucy was not feeling well that morning and did not come down to breakfast. The boy was so pale and haggard that the Major looked at him anxiously. "What's the matter with you, Chad? Are you ?" "I didn't sleep very well last night, Major."
She was called a Topsy Doll. "Whut's de mattah heah?" asked Topsy, talking just as a colored doll should talk. "Don't yo' all want fo' me to come an' play tag wif yo'?" "We'd love to have you," said the Jumping Jack, who, being all sorts of colors, did not mind one more. "But our China Cat is afraid some of your black might rub off on her." "Ha! Ha! Ha!" laughed Topsy. "Dat suah am funny!
His negro man Pete was with him, and when he told Pete to gather up some dry wood, the darkey, with eyes protruding from his head, asked: "Massa Charles, am ye gwine to stay heah all night?" "Certainly, Pete, why not? A storm is coming, and we could not reach home in such a tempest." "But dis house am haunted." "Oh, nonsense, Pete.
"Heah, Bob!" she called, snapping her fingers, and whistling the shrill signal she always gave when she fed them. There was no response from the darkness outside, and she turned indoors repeating the whistle, and calling, "Heah, Bob! Heah, puppy! Come to yo' miss!"
Climbing it was difficult. "When we ketch the wild hosses we can drive them down the valley an' round to the road," said Blinky, evidently by way of excuse. "It'll be longer, but easy travelin'. Shore we couldn't drive any broomtails heah." The summit of this ridge was covered with piñons and cedars, growing in heavy clumps around outcropping of ledges.
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