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I had just hitched the cows to the end of the tongue, by means of the chain, when they trotted by, and sweeping down near me halted. Virginia still sat as if she had never moved, her hand gripping the iron support of the carriage top, her foot outside the box as if she was ready to spring out. Buck Gowdy leaped out and came down to me. "In trouble, Mr. Vandemark?" he inquired.

Lavendar heard him gasp for breath, and in the darkness, as he hitched the sorrel to a staple in one of the big locusts, his face went white. The large manner which had dominated Old Chester for so many years was shrinking and shrivelling; the whole man seemed, somehow, smaller.... Benjamin Wright, in his mangy beaver hat, sitting quaking in his library, heard their steps on the veranda.

Peter who, despite her efforts to teach him distinction in dress, insisted upon wearing the same kind of clothes. A mild kind of providence, Peter, whose modest functions were not unlike those of the third horse which used to be hitched on to the street car at the foot of the Seventeenth-Street hill: it was Peter's task to help pull Honora through the interminable summers.

Those who came the judge, the jury, the lawyers, the clients, the spectators all hitched their horses to the swinging limbs of the trees. The sole sign of man's handiwork, beyond the log walls of the court-house itself, was a crude attempt at bridge-building.

He was dressed in clothes which were much too large for him, and his manner indicated that he was not at ease in the company of the well-dressed Boy Scouts. "This is Gastong," Jack explained. "He's capable of doing a running stunt that would make an express train look like it was hitched to the scenery.

The big lynx on my side of the log was in a fighting temper; he snarled continuously. Another sprang over the log and crouched beside him, facing me. Then began a curious scene, of which I could not wait to see the end. The two lynxes hitched nearer and nearer to where I stood motionless, watching.

She felt very helpless in this battle with death, but her determination never left her. She ran to the door. Poor Garibaldi was still standing hitched to the stretcher. Lucia went to her and led her back to the door of the cottage. She looked half-fearfully, half-angrily at the town above her. "He shall not die!" she said between her teeth, and went back into the house.

Take care of your feet, Miss, I am off of mine. Lord bless me! what's this? why as I am a livin' sinner, it's half her frock hitched on to my coat button. Now I know what that scream meant. "'How do you do, Mr. Slick?

You see, boss, I'm short on the Spanish talk and so I have to do some figurin'." "Well, Sun, you have come along a lot since you first hit the Concho! Go ahead, and good luck to you! If you need any money " "I was comin' to that. Seein' as you kind of know me and seein' I'm goin' to git hitched I was thinkin' you might lend me mebby a hundred on the contrac'." "I guess I can. Will that be enough?"

Some raged and cursed and shook foolish fists at the oncoming enemy. Some fell upon their knees and lifted hands to the God of fire and flood. Then each ran back into the house for his or her treasure; a little bag of money under a mattress, or a babe in its crib, or a little rifle, or a dolly of rags. Frantic horses were hastily hitched to farm wagons. The treasures were quickly bundled in.