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"She's got two trunks and a fiddle over to the depot don't see how 'n the world Man's going to git 'em out to the ranch; they're might' near as big as claim shacks, both of 'em. Time she gits 'em into Man's shack she'll have to go outside every time she wants to turn around he-he! By granny two trunks, to one woman! Have some pop, Kenneth, on me. "The boys are talkin' about a shivaree t'-night.
He seemed to be in something of a hurry now if impatient movement meant anything yet he did not leave the place at once. He kept looking off there toward the southwest off beyond Antelope Coulee and the sparsely dotted shacks of the settlers. A smudge of smoke rose thinly there, behind a hill.
The curtain was dropped, there was a swift change, and it arose again on a hastily-built frontier town a town of one-story shacks with two-story false fronts, dance and gambling halls, saloons, a pitiful hotel, and all the crude and ugly building expressions of a raw civilization. "My mighty!" gasped Captain Dan Rugley. "That's Amarillo Amarillo as I first saw it, twenty-five years ago."
Along the roadside, rarely, we came upon rough-looking log cabins, or shacks of canvas, or tents. The owners were not at home. We thought them miners; but in the light of subsequent knowledge I believe that unlikely the diggings were farther in. We came upon the diggings quite suddenly. The trail ran around the corner of a hill; and there they were below us!
Sallie Kingsbury's there keeping it, just as she did when Hercules was alive; waiting for you or the lawyer or somebody to turn her out, I guess. And it's only five miles by the good road. You couldn't go to any of these sailor shacks down here, and the big summer hotel over yonder isn't any place for a sick man, let alone a lady without her trunk." Agatha looked in amazement at the doctor.
The mouth of the valley had been laid out as the site of a future town, but so far it was occupied by rows of tents and rude wooden shacks, inhabited by the construction gangs. A large proportion of them were orderly, well-conducted men: industrious immigrants who had seized the first opportunity for getting work, small farmers attracted by high wages, skilled artisans.
The only structures that had obviously been erected since the earthquake were the "ready-to-wear" shacks sent as a stop-gap from America. One should not look critically at a gift-house, but they are certainly very ugly.
Even the little shacks where fresh fruit and vegetables had been displayed to motorists were now boarded up. Their cheerless, deserted look contributed quite as much as the changing foliage to the scene of coldness, desolation. The sad look which Nature assumes when school opens. The wind blew and the leaves fell and the West Ketchem scouts fell too, for Scout Harris, who was also blowing.
"Be ready to jump, boys," cautioned Bert, in a low voice to his lads. "But be careful not to stumble." "We're all ready," replied Cole, looking back at the line of boys who grasped the rope. The flames were crackling more loudly. Greater clouds of smoke from the burning oil rolled into the air. The heat from the blazing shacks could be felt some distance away.
They lived "across the tracks" in the labor settlement, or in lath and tar-paper shacks about the hills, camping in their eternal campaign of day labor wherever the job happened to take them. Few were married, and all were given more or less to drink and riotous living when pay-day came; and of course they were constantly changing jobs.
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