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"And, when you get a good start in that direction," he added, "yuh better keep right on going." The herder surveyed him morosely, but he said nothing; neither did he rise from the rock to obey the command. The dogs sat upon their haunches and perked their ears inquiringly, as if they understood better than did their master that these men were not to be quite overlooked.
I am doing so well with my hog-raising that Hutter wants to come in with me, giving me an interest in his sheep. It is rumored some one has bought the Deep Lake section I wanted for a ranch. I don't know who. Hutter was rather noncommittal. Charley, the herder, had one of his queer spells the other day, and swore to me he had a letter from you.
He went into the Peter and Paul Church there; where Herder used to preach sermons, sometimes not at all liked by the nobility and gentry for their revolutionary tendency; the sovereign was shielded from the worst effects of his doctrine by worshipping apart from other sinners in a glazed gallery.
I found her on a little plateau quite far up, and because I was tired I sat down to rest, keeping tight hold of her, you may be sure. I was dreaming and thinking, and oh, a long way off, when suddenly I heard a voice above me. I looked up; my, but I was frightened, I can tell you, but I could see no one. The voice said: 'Little goat herder, will you give me a drink of milk?" Lucia stopped.
Belding's old herder!... The Indian points this way then down. He's showing Rojas the lay of the trail." "Boys, Yaqui's in range of that bunch," said Jim, swiftly. "He's raisin' his rifle slow Lord, how slow he is!... He's covered some one. Which one I can't say. But I think he'll pick Rojas." "The Yaqui can shoot. He'll pick Rojas," added Gale, grimly.
"Ze r-rock pierre or! Eet eez to you et le bébé one half. Ze res' you send you send heem France pour ma femme mi esposa an' ze leet-leetla one? Mi padron you do heem?" "What's he drivin' at?" muttered one of the cowboys. But Ike motioned them to proceed and drive as fast as possible toward Willow Spring. He bent toward the agitated herder again. "I'll take care of it, Pete," he assured him.
A brawny miner stepped up to the side of a sheep herder who had been edging in all evening to get free drinks and squirted a mouthful of tobacco juice in his ear. "If anybody else had done that but you, Bill, I'd be tempted to strike him." "Don't let your friendship for me spoil your notions," the miner said with a contemptuous look. The sheep herder made no reply, as he wiped his ear.
They knew it for the lantern of the remaining herder. Matthews turned aside toward the landing. "We meet here," he whispered. The Indian grunted an assent, and made off in the direction of the distant spark. When he came back, some time had passed. A flash of lightning disclosed him to Matthews, who saw that the other was wiping at his face with his skirt.
Herder went on some little distance, muttering to himself, and then stopped and looked in the direction Moretz had taken. Ordering his servants to proceed with the animals, he wheeled round his horse and slowly followed the woodcutter.
He came honestly by his passion for poets; his mother had known it in her time, and Weimar was the home of Wieland and of Herder before the young Grand-Duke came back from his travels bringing Goethe with him, and afterwards attracting Schiller. The story of that great epoch is all there in the Residenz, told as articulately as a palace can.
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