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He shuffled forward, limping heavily. Occasionally he stopped and turned to meet a level gaze that was impersonal; that promised nothing. Lorry would have liked to let the other ride. The man was suffering and to ride would save time. But the black, a rangy, quick-stepping animal, was faster than Gray Leg. But what if the man did escape? No one need know about it.
'Do your own saddle while I attend to this. Zero can run right away from anything they're riding from anything at all. Can't you, Zero? and she gave the horse a quick pat in between unbuckling. He was a powerful, rangy bay, and not winded by his run and his swim. 'He's my father's, she went on. 'He'll carry you through to General Hooker's camp at Falmouth he knows that camp.
Jack had been sent away three years ago, just before Columbine's return from school. Therefore she had not seen him for over seven years. But she remembered him well a big, rangy boy, handsome and wild, who had made her childhood almost unendurable. "Yes my son Jack he's comin' home," said Belllounds, with a break in his voice. "An', Collie now I must tell you somethin'."
THREE wild-horse hunters made camp one night beside a little stream in the Sevier Valley, five hundred miles, as a crow flies, from Bostil's Ford. These hunters had a poor outfit, excepting, of course, their horses. They were young men, rangy in build, lean and hard from life in the saddle, bronzed like Indians, still-faced, and keen-eyed.
"Sharp tongue," he commented. "Tulka lost knife ax? So! Ennar," he called over his shoulder, and one of the men stepped out a pace beyond his fellows. He was shorter and much younger than his chief, with a boy's rangy slimness and an open, good-looking face, his eyes bright on Foscar with a kind of eager excitement.
Old Gideon took seven of his dogs, driving them two abreast. Six were huskies, rangy, muscular animals with thick, dense coats. They were in the best of spirits and carried their tails erect like their Malemute leader. Butch, though a Malemute, had a strong strain of collie in him. It gave him a sense of responsibility.
"Jim Cleve," mused Kells. "Never heard of him. And I never forget a name or a face. What's he like?" "Clean, rangy chap, big, but not too big," replied Pearce. "All muscle. Not more'n twenty three. Hard rider, hard fighter, hard gambler an' drinker reckless as hell. If only you can steady him, boss! Ask Bate what he thinks." "Well!" exclaimed Kells in surprise.
Then Pan, having the black between himself and the fence, turned Sorrel loose. The race began with Pan still holding the advantage. It did not, however, last long that way. The black ran away from Pan. He wanted to shoot but thought it best not to use his last shells. What a stride! He was a big horse, too, ragged, rangy, with action and power that delighted Pan.
Hardly had the arrangement been made, when a whaleboat rowed by Marquesans followed in the wake of the canoe, and a tall, rangy Frenchman climbed aboard the Morning Star.
At first the girl had kept the young turkeys and their foster mother right near the house, so that she could watch them carefully. But poults are rangy, and these being particularly strong and thrifty, they soon ran the old hen pretty nearly to death. So Hiram had built a coop into which they could go at night, safe from any vermin, and set it far down in the east lot, near the woods.
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