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A've known these mountains longer than you have," and curving through the brushwood, the old frontiersman came out ahead of the pack leader. The little mule had undoubtedly followed a kind of trail. Though the grasses were saddle-high, punky logs showed the fresh rip of shod horses. Little mossy streams betrayed roiled water and stones over-turned.
It should not be very difficult, for the wood looks so rotten as almost to be crumbling to powder." No sooner said than done. Drake eagerly placed the end of his stout cudgel under the hasp of the nearest of the boxes and, using it as a lever, soon sent the iron flying, the nails drawing out of the soft, "punky" wood as easily as though they had been set in putty.
A man of short, stout figure, a sort of compromise between an alderman and a dwarf, with very short legs, a broad red face, wide mouth, crispy grey hair that stood nearly erect on his head, a red, punky nose, and keen, grey eyes, paced watchfully up and down the quarter-deck.
Lockley had spotted a fallen tree far gone with wood-rot. He broke pieces of the punky stuff with his fingers. Then he realized that without a pot the bracken shoots he'd gathered could not be cooked. They had to be boiled or not cooked at all. "We'll call it a salad," he told Jill, "minus vinegar and oil and garlic, and eat what we can."
It leaned a good deal and had a large hole at the bottom, and a smaller one at top. We boys had often used this tree in playing Swiss Family Robinson, and by cutting steps in its soft punky walls had made it easy to go up and down in the hollow.
We'll soon have it looking homelike. Make me a broom, dear, and I'll sweep out the worst of it at once." Talking now in terms of practical detail, with romance for the hour displaced by harsh reality, they examined the entire house. Of the once magnificent furnishings, only dust-piles, splinters and punky rubbish remained.
Other men have slipped on a banana skin and died. Men have fought to save themselves from destruction, and have been destroyed. Other men have resigned themselves and have won out triumphantly. The doomed Dobson was swashing toward the roaring shore broadside on. The first ledge would roll her bottom up, beating in her punky breast at the same time.
He was out where nothing happened unless the Boys started it themselves. So they started it. When he was twenty he was sent to the City, an extra fine Specimen of what the Small Town can produce. He had his Hair combed down into his Eyes. He wore a punky little Derby, about two sizes too small.
But it wa'n't what he said, so much as how he was sayin' it, that got me int'rested. There's some voices you don't have to hear but once to remember a lifetime, an this was one of that kind. It was one of these husky baritones, like what does the coonsongs for the punky records they put into the music boxes at the penny arcades.
"To a certain extent, though I suppose your cowboys will think us pretty punky at it," answered Jerry. "But we mean to learn everything we can while here," piped up Bluff earnestly. "Good for you! These horses are only old plugs, however, so there's no fear of them running away with you; and here they come." Several cowboys came toward them, each leading a number of horses.
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