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"Roy, I've got two girls sisters," replied Dale. The man Roy whistled softly under his breath. Then another lean, rangy form strode out of the darkness, and was met by Dale. "Now, boys how about Anson's gang?" queried Dale. "At Snowdrop, drinkin' an' quarrelin'. Reckon they'll leave there about daybreak," replied Roy. "How long have you been here?" "Mebbe a couple of hours." "Any horse go by?"
The cart was driven by a Mexican in leather breeches and jacket over a red shirt. Behind him rode the boy and girl Drew had seen in the Tubacca alley, mounted on rangy, nervous horses that had speed in every line of their under-fleshed bodies. Each rider trailed four spare mounts roped nose to tail. "Buenos días, Don Cazar."
There remains but Lily. I don't know just how to do justice to Lily the "Lily maid." We named her that because she looked it. Her color was a pure white, her eye was virginal and silly, her long bang strayed in wanton carelessness across her face and eyes, her expression was foolish, and her legs were long and rangy.
The next year the last year's crop of big farmer boys would stay at home to husk corn, and the coach would begin all over on a new crop. The result was, we were a dub school at football. Any school that could scare up a good rangy halfback and a line that could hold sheep could get up an adding festival at our expense any time. We lived in a perpetual state of fear.
The man, unusually tall, wearing black shaggy chaps, grey soft shirt and neck-handkerchief and a large black hat, kept the stage in view from around the corner of the wood shed standing back of the superintendent's cabin. Then, swinging up to the back of a rangy granite-coloured roan, he turned into the road. "We're playing to win this time, Comet," he said softly.
They separated almost immediately, and we raced after the larger of the two, a huge fellow with rangy legs which carried him forward in a long, swinging lope. The ground was perfect for the car, and the speedometer registered forty miles an hour. He had a thousand-yard start, but we gained rapidly, and I estimated that he never reached a greater speed than thirty miles an hour.
Meanwhile, he grew so rangy, and developed such length and power of leg and such traits of character, that the father of the little girl who owned him was almost convincing when he declared that the young cat was half broncho and half Malay pirate though, in the light of Gipsy's later career, this seems bitterly unfair to even the lowest orders of bronchos and Malay pirates.
He followed and maintained a position close behind the galloping pony without breaking out of his rangy trot. Occasionally Isobel flung back a gay remark over her shoulder. Ashton did not respond. He rode after her, silent and depressed, his eyes fixed longingly on her graceful form, ever fleeing forward before him as he advanced. Once clear of the sagebrush, she drew rein for him to come up.
Presently the maid said, 'Ma'am, Rangoon has jumped down, and is walking off to the right, after a gentleman. 'After a sparrow, I dare say, bless him, said Miss Blowser. Two minutes later she asked, 'Has Rangy come back? 'No, ma'am. 'Just look out and see what he is doing, the dear. 'He's walking along the pavement, ma'am, sniffing at something. And oh! there's that curate's dog.
He glanced proudly at the wide-awake dogs who showed their breeding and education at every turn, and then toward George's ill-assorted collection: Spot, rangy, raw-boned, and awkward, Queen fretful and mutinous, and Baldy so stolid that it was evident he was receiving no inspiration from the enthusiasm about him.
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