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One could not blame her for glaring jealously while Jean tightened the cinch and remounted, tying her rope to the saddle horn, all ready to pull; with her muscles tensed for the coming struggle with the sand, and perhaps with her horse as well, and with every line of her figure showing how absolutely at home she was in the saddle, and how sure of herself.
As for the other windows about the place, they were such slips, that without they were widened, any escaping by them was impossible. To have let ourselves down, one by one, from the flat roof by a rope, might have done, but it was a clumsy unsuitable way, with all those children and women, so I gave that up, and then sat down as I was by a little window looking out on to the north alley.
There was an exclamation of joyful surprise from Johnny; then Arthur answered, "If that is you, Archer, come and help us, for we are tied hand and foot. You have nothing to fear; our captors have left us quite alone." We now came forward without further hesitation. They were all bound fast, their hands being tied behind them, in addition to which, each was fastened to the tree by a rope of sennit.
However, I thought that when he got some good grass, and a little fat on his ribs he might have more life, and so I hitched a rope to him and drove him ahead down the river. When I came to the Bad Axe river I found it swimming full, but had no trouble in crossing, as the pony was as good as a dog in the water.
Philip, you ought to buy her." So the bargain was made; the price was ten pounds, Bob giving in the saddle, bridle, a pair of hobbles, and a tether rope. He was proud of his deal. Two years afterwards, when Philip was riding through the bush, Bob rode up alongside, and after a while said: "Well, Mister, how do you like that filly I sold you?" "Very well indeed.
Jinks had never tasted chicken, great care having been taken about this for many reasons; but, somehow, as soon as he found out what was roosting just above him, he had an irresistible desire to get that chicken and see how he tasted. Unfortunately, he was tied up, and his master never allowed him a long rope; but Jinks, having once made up his mind, was not going to allow a rope to stop him.
They were not so good as the waxen rope we had made in Arkansas. So, with a long sigh for the dreams of youth, I return to the stern present in this besieged town, my only consolation to remember the old axiom, "A city besieged is a city taken," so if we live through it we shall be out of the Confederacy.
Is it to the starboard hand that the bolt rope goes, or to the other board?" "I pray you to forget my foolishness, lord king," cried Kolgrim, growing very red and shame faced. "That I shall not," the king answered, laughing. "I owe you thanks for such a jest as I have not played on a man for many a long day. Truly I have been more light hearted for my laugh ever since."
"Ain't there anybody else you can rope?" he wanted to know. "Where's Gay?" "'A leading woman," quoted Jean serenely, "'can't afford to get hurt!" Burns chuckled. He knew who was the author of that sentence; he had heard it before. "Well, if you're as fatal as all that, I can't turn over my leading man for you to practice on, either," he pointed out to her.
It was all Bunny could do to hold to the umbrella now. The wind almost blew it from his hands. Even with Sue to help him it was hard work. "If you could only tie it fast," suggested Sue. "Maybe I can," said Bunny. "Here's a rope." The rope by which the boat had been tied to a tree on the island lay in the bottom of the boat.
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