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No clearer demonstration of the use of the lasso as a weapon of defence was possible. "What is the most difficult animal, in your opinion, to catch with the lasso?" was asked. "A sea lion," answered the rope thrower. "I have caught them off the southern coast. They go right through a noose. The only way to get them is to throw the rope around his neck and back of one flipper.
"Don't be in a hurry," roars the priest. "Be bound awhile, drunkard! You had better be afraid of an untied rope it may be formed into a noose." But obeying a certain swift movement or glance of Haggart, Mariet walks over to the sailor and opens the knots of the rope. And again all look in silence upon her bent, alarmed head. Then they turn their eyes upon Haggart.
"No," she repeated; "circumstantial evidence is not absolute proof, but Eleanore does not know this. She is so intense; she cannot see but one thing at a time. She has been running her head into a noose, and oh, " Pausing, she clutched my arm with a passionate grasp: "Do you think there is any danger? Will they " She could not go on.
Skookum's first lesson was learned the duty of chasing the big animal of that particular smell, then barking up the tree it had climbed. Quonab, armed with a forked stick and a cord noose, now went up the tree.
Two weeks, and then came a telegram for Park. In the reading of it he shuffled off his attitude of boyish irresponsibility and became in a breath the cool, business-like leader of men. Holding the envelope still in his hand he sought out Thurston, who was practicing with a rope. As Park approached him he whirled the noose and cast it neatly over the peak of the night-hawk's teepee.
It is absurd to suppose that it is merely weakness and force of habit. I tried to explain it in that way the other night, but it will no longer suffice. It is something much deeper and more terrible than that. Why, when I was at the Mardens' whist-table, I was dragged away as if the noose of a rope had been cast round me. I can no longer disguise it from myself. The woman has her grip upon me.
I didn't feel it much at the time. I was wriggling my own head out of a noose, you see. I wish I had thought of pulling down the cuffs, and had tied the shoes more neatly. And putting the watch in the wrong pocket was a bad mistake. It had all to be done so hurriedly. 'You were wrong, by the way, about the whisky.
"As for Opata, I used to see him sometimes, dancing alone to increase his magic power, I speak but as the people of Taku-Wakin spoke, and once at the edge of the lagoon, catching snakes. Opata had made a noose of hair at the end of a peeled switch, and he would snare them as they darted like streaks through the water.
He could let himself down by the cord to within a less distance of the ground than his own height, and had his knife ready in his hand to cut it then and drop. 'The eyes again! he cried in an unearthly screech. Staggering as if struck by lightning, he lost his balance and tumbled over the parapet. The noose was on his neck.
The stern lip of Riley Sinclair curled. "He's going to let it go through," said Sandersen to himself. "After all nobody can blame him. He couldn't put his own neck in the noose." Over the lowest limb of a great cottonwood Judge Lodge accurately flung the rope, so that the noose dangled a significant distance from the ground. There was a businesslike stir among the others.
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