United States or Albania ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
There were complaints from each of the other girls, except Grace, who, though she disliked that bitter taste as much as did her companions, was too plucky to voice her dislike. "You must make certain that your tents are cleared of tarantulas before you take off your shoes, folks.
"Horrid things! but those little, white bits they could never kill one!" Indeed they could. Walter knew better. Nine grains of morphia! Why, half the amount might. Miss Rosa demands to know about Mr. Hurd, of Toledo, and is told. She laughs like a delighted child. "What a funny fellow! But tell me more about your home and your sisters, Walter. I know enough about Texas and tarantulas and cowboys."
But, as he couldn't paint pictures, he took it out in rounding up horse thieves and in making Mojada County a safe place to sleep in if you was well armed and not afraid of requisitions or tarantulas.
He must sleep amongst the baggage in the cart, or on the broader bed of the ground, where snakes and tarantulas creep and the heavy dew saturates one through and through. As is well known, the bullock is a slow animal, and these never travel more than two or three miles an hour. Time with the native is no object. The words, "With patience we win heaven," are ever on his lips.
There was a simultaneous awakening, and a tumultuous muster of the brigade in the dark, and a general tumbling and sprawling over each other in the narrow aisle between the bedrows. In the midst of the turmoil, Bob H sprung up out of a sound sleep, and knocked down a shelf with his head. Instantly he shouted: "Turn out, boys the tarantulas is loose!" No warning ever sounded so dreadful.
O'Flannigan would hold him for the Brigade's board anyhow, and he intended to get what entertainment he could out of the boys; he said, with his old-time pleasant twinkle, that he meant to survey them into Utah and then telegraph Brigham to hang them for trespass! The surveyors brought back more tarantulas with them, and so we had quite a menagerie arranged along the shelves of the room.
"To think that my grandfather should have neglected to give me my letter," she complained, as she seized and opened it. It was dated Fort Farthermost, and announced the fact of the regiment's arrival at the new quarters near the boundary line of Texas, "in the midst of a wilderness infested with hostile Indians, half-breeds, wild beasts, rattlesnakes and tarantulas.
His large heavy shoes retarded him; he removed them, tucked them under his arm and with a lofty disdain of tarantulas and side-winders fled barefooted. Three- quarters of an hour from the time he had first seen the signal-fires, the mozo was kneeling beside the stricken Desert Rat, who lay unconscious close to one of the fires.
The man who thought a tarantula had "got him" was mistaken only a crack in a box had caught his finger. Not one of those escaped tarantulas was ever seen again. There were ten or twelve of them. We took candles and hunted the place high and low for them, but with no success. Did we go back to bed then? We did nothing of the kind. Money could not have persuaded us to do it.
He carried four men from the firing line the other day back half a mile to the hospital tent. He spends most of his time coming around headquarters in an undershirt of mine and a gold bracelet fighting tarantulas. I woke up the other morning with one seven inches long and as hairy as your head reposing on my pillow.
Word Of The Day