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For days we were obliged to lariat the wildest of them and draw their heads to the hubs of the heavily laden wagons, before being able to adjust the yoke, many times receiving a gentle reminder from the hind hoof of one of the critters to be more careful. I went into the fray with the full determination of learning the profession of driver and at the tenth day I had broken in a team of extras.
In an unlucky moment he made bold to lay hold of the parson, but a piece of the broken barriers in the hands of a flat-boatman felled him to the sod, the terrible crowd swept over him, the lariat was cut, and the giant parson hurled the tiger upon the buffalo's back.
A gent might have thrown the loop of a lariat about the outfit an' drug it after him with a pony. No one, however, performs this labour, as the camp is as petyoolant as a t'rant'ler an' any onauthorised dalliance with its sensibilities would have led to vivid plays. Still, she ain't big, Tucson ain't; an' I learns my way about from centre to suburbs in the first ten minutes.
He was back before his prisoner could do more than wrench at his bonds, and with him he brought his lariat and his canteen. "What are you going to do?" José inquired, backing away until he was once more at bay. "I'm going to give you a drink." "Whisky? You think you can make me drunk?" The horse-breaker laughed loudly but uneasily. "Not whisky; water. I'm going to give you a drink of water."
The traders traveled for hundreds of miles through the woods, bartering with the Indians on the way and receiving, in exchange for their goods, bear and deer skins, beaver furs, and wild ponies which had been caught by lariat in the neighboring Apalousa country. Baily had intended to return to New York by sea, but on his arrival at New Orleans he was unable to find a ship sailing to New York.
Tad got up boldly, and without even looking toward the silent red men, began fussing about his saddle, cinching the girths, and straightening the saddle. His last act before mounting was to see that the coils of his lariat were in order. "All right," announced the lad, vaulting into the saddle.
There was something more than a shake hidden by them, for in about one minute more a light, lithe, graceful human form sprang suddenly out. A quick grasp at the trailing lariat, a rapid twist of a loop of it around the animal's face, a buoyant leap, and Two Arrows was a mounted Indian once more.
It's the jooty of the camp to drag forth the haughty descendant of a hundred or maybe a hundred and twenty-five earls, even so at the p'int of a lariat, and jine him to the weepin' lady. Fellows! roundup Miss Sally and the Marquis; there's goin' to be a weddin'." This whim of Phonograph's was received with whoops of appreciation.
A lariat in a curving line might be slightly indicated through the grass: the foreground might be cut so as to limit the range toward us; or a broken line may be constructed diagonally from the horse’s left foot by a few accents in the light of the stubble.
Dick's fear was that Phil had run afoul of the tramps, for neither he nor Garry knew that LeBlanc was in that vicinity. Nearly an hour passed, and then Garry sprang to his feet. "There's no use waiting any longer. Phil would move heaven and earth to keep up to the agreement that was made as to the hour of return. Now we must do something. Get your rifle and lariat and hatchet.
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