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The custom was established that whoever was taking the machine out should toot the horn before starting. Glen learned the signal. No matter where he was or what he was doing, when that horn tooted he was off for the barn and up into the front seat. One morning, while Glen was on the back porch eating his breakfast of mush and milk, the chauffeur tooted.
A whip-lash curled painfully round his left shoulder, crossing one of his newly healed wounds. And again came a nip at one of his hocks, a sharper nip this time, and one that drew two spots of blood. "Mush, Jan!
Even groping through a balsam-scented darkness with one hand clasping the thrilly fingers of a lovely young girl, this distaste did not altogether leave him. "This this mush that you speak of?" he questioned quite abruptly. "With the dogs as as nervous as you say, so unfortunately liable to stampede?
In three months he was able to walk and after six months he was trapping as usual. While Thorn was layed up I had a double dose of work to do and grew a little careless, so mush so that something happened which never happened before I was cleaning my gun and rooled it over on my knee. I had forgotten to remove the loads and off she went tearing a big hole in our camp.
It was with something like reluctance he withdrew his gaze from the far distance. "I've only two days more, An-ina," he said. "The outfit's ready to the last ounce of tea and the filling of the last cartridge. The Sleepers are wide awake, and squatting around waiting for the word to 'mush. We just daren't lose the snow for the run to our headquarters. I wish Uncle Steve would get around.
The magic word "Mush," which would send the dogs headlong at their breast harness, hovered on his lips, but ere he gave it utterance it changed into an ejaculation of horror. "By Gar!" Then after a thrilling pause, "The Hood!" Ralph, standing ready to break the sled out, turned. "Hey!" he ejaculated; and horror was in his tone, too.
I do not like all this flowery mush." I think it safer, my reader, not to tell you any of it. Let us suppose that he merely said, "Quite all right," and that when Rodriguez thanked him on one knee he answered, "Not at all;" and that so Rodriguez and Morano left. If here it miss some flash of the fair form of Truth it is the fault of the age I write for.
He really ought not to 'gobble' so, mother," said Frank, who was eating with great deliberation and propriety. "Never you mind, old quiddle. I'm so hungry I could tuck away a bushel," answered Jack, emptying a glass of milk and holding out his plate for more mush, regardless of his white moustache.
In winter the parson's family fared worse; one minister declared that he had had nothing but mush and milk with occasional "cracker johnny-cakes" all winter, and that he had not once tasted meat in that space of time, save at a funeral or ordination-supper, where I doubt not he gorged with the composure and capacity of a Sioux brave at a war feast.
"Oh, that's the only word the dogs know, except a certain expressions we try to discourage the Indians from using. In the old days the dog-drivers used to say 'mahsh. Now you never hear anything but swearing and 'mush, a corruption of the French-Canadian marche."
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