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During the week which he and Scip had been spending at the ranche, seven or eight new men had been taken in by Swanson, who, as was before said, was getting in shape for the spring round-up. Of these new men six were Pinkerton detectives, and at this particular time were several miles from the ranche herding cattle.
He always went alone, taking no servant with him, and made his retreat after his own mood, served only by the farmer and his wife who lived in charge from year's end to year's end, herding a few sheep and cultivating a few acres for their own needs. They were a silent pair without children and plainly not feeling the lack of them. They had lived in remote moorland places since their birth.
For his particular offence, I would have had the old hulks maintained in the Hamoaze, with all their severities; as it is, the posturer may find Dartmoor pretty stiff, but will yet have the consolation of herding with his betters." Strangely enough this speech did more to fix Dorothea's resolve than all she had read or heard of the rigours of the war-prison.
While the camp was springing into existence out of the tangled woods, the jackal kept guard, circling at a distance, like a well-trained collie herding a flock of sheep. The first night was a repetition of many others.
"Our valiancie is about to run away," said the mediciner, who had crept close to Catharine's side before she was aware. "Catharine, thou art a superstitious fool, like most women; nevertheless thou hast some mind, and I speak to thee as one of more understanding than the buffaloes which are herding about us. These haughty barons who overstride the world, what are they in the day of adversity?
"How is your mother, Mary?" asked Mrs. Bingle, always a rational woman. Mary bobbed. "She's working, ma'am," said she, and that was all she knew about her mother's state of health. "Are you cold?" inquired Mr. Bingle, herding them a little closer to the grate. "Yes," said two of the Sykeses. "Sir," admonished Melissa. "Sir!" said all of the Sykeses. "Now, draw up the chairs," said Mr.
"If you were a farmer's daughter, clumsy and rough and awkward, it would not seem to inappropriate for you to be herding cattle and counting sheep; but now your promise! when I come to think that ever since I met you, whenever I think of you I think of of a beautiful flower that now I have seen you in evening-dress, I realise how wrong it is that you should do such work. Oh, dash it!
But much of it had better been left unsaid, and most of it is carried on by ignorant brawlers, who should be left ploughing fields and herding sheep instead of meddling with matters too high for them. At least such is my humble mind, but I am only a gentleman private of the Prince's guard, and there is opposite me a commissioned officer of his army.
"But don't think it will be a picnic," urged Webb. "We'll know we've been in a fight before we get through. With a crowd of gunmen like Mysterious Pete against us we'll have hard travelin'. I'd side-step this if I could, but I can't." A Stampede Clanton took his turn at night herding for the first time the day of Warren's visit to the camp.
This was the foundation of William Carter's fortune; and it is worthy of remark, that both the gift of the egg, and the opportunity of hatching it, he owed to acts of thoughtful good-nature on his own part. In due time the goslin appeared, and Billy fed it from his own scanty fare, taking it with him when he was herding.
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