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I believe I have at last got everything King's Highway in the proper perspective and the proper proportion," she said, stumbling a bit over the alliteration and no wonder. It was a sentence to stampede cattle; but I didn't stampede. I wanted, more than ever, to kiss but I won't be like Barney, if I can help it.
"I reckon," he said as he curled the lash of the whip viciously over the shoulders of the horses, "that she's got me locoed. Well," he cogitated, "any woman's liable to stampede a man, an' I ain't the first guy that's had his doubts whether he's a coyote or a lion after he's been herd-rode by a petticoat. I'm waitin' her out.
This was the origin of the road, and it was in steady and continuous use until the startling news of the discovery of the Comstock Lode in Virginia City aroused the mining world. From every camp in California rude and stalwart men eagerly set forth to reach the new Camp. It was a genuine stampede. The chief question was: "Will the new Camp make good?"
It isn't right, it isn't fair, such perversity of luck." "It is too bad," Smoke sympathized. "But I'm hanged if I know what you're going to do about it. First come, first served, you know." "I wish I could do something," she flashed back at him. "I'd like to see them all freeze on the trail, or have everything terrible happen to them, so long as the Sea Lion stampede arrived first."
"I will go in search of him when morning comes; the worst that could happen would be that he would stampede with the cattle, and we shall have the men in charge of the droves coming past presently," said Rumple, who had made a sort of shelter for himself and Rupert from the wreckage of the canvas which had been draped round the wagon.
Never had Marsden school children arrived at their respective homes so early, nor so promptly availed themselves of parents' satisfaction in this promptness. Consent obtained and what mother could refuse it to so deserving a petitioner? there followed a stampede of youngsters toward Eunice Maitland's south corn-field.
It would have been the height of imprudence to have permitted the immediate departure of our carriers before I had arranged for the future, thus about eighty were secured by the soldiers, including the sheik's son, from a general stampede that took place. I ordered them to be disarmed, as I considered that if unarmed, they would not venture alone through the Madi country.
For in days when news travelled slowly, and travelling for ordinary men was still slower, in days when governments jealously prohibited the expatriation of their subjects, and only allowed the immigration of aliens under strict limitations, nothing like the Australian gold-rush could have taken place. As it was, everything favored the stampede.
He tried to ride his horse right in the door, an' when it got scared of me an' John lyin' in bed, an' rared up, the Kid hit it over the head with the gun in his hand, an' slipped out'n the saddle, laughin' at it stagger. "But he come on in an' Charley come in, too. Ed Bedloe was out in the far corral, gettin' ready to throw the gate open an' turn out the cows an' stampede 'em off'n the ranch.
"No," I said; "it's not likely. What good could they do when they couldn't see to shoot?" "None, of course. It's not as if they were soldiers with bayonets. The only thing they could do would be to stampede the horses." "What!" I whispered excitedly. "Oh, I say, don't talk like that." "Only a bit of an idea that came into my head. Don't see anything do you?" "Nothing," I replied.
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