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Half a dozen naked bodies lay limp among the rocks to bear witness to the old teamster's marksmanship when a ball drilled him through the chest and he sank back dying. There was only one chance now for the remaining trooper, and he took it. With his seven-shot rifle he dived out from under the wagon and gained the nearest clump of brush.

Heavily loaded they managed to regain the others keeping along the edge of the torrent. Alice Thayor presented a strange appearance; a pair of lumberjack's trousers, a mackinaw shirt, rough woollen socks, a pair of brogans and one of the teamster's overcoats, its collar turned up against her dishevelled hair, had transformed her into a vagabond.

There useter be a teamster's camp six or seven miles out of Mudgee, at a place called th' Old Pipeclay, in the days before the railroad went round to Dubbo, an' most of us bullickies useter camp there for the night.

Without any discrimination, Sam had summoned all at meal-times with a booming teamster's bell, thus placing the gentry on a level with the Quarters; but as Cheon pointed out, what could be expected of one of Sam's ways and caste?

Dolores, of course, that witch who had given love-philters to both her boys otherwise, why were they always following round after her as if they didn't dare say their soul was their own? The Rector stuck to the teamster's house as if the poor fool thought he had some business there! Didn't he know, idiot, that Dolores was for the other one?

Our share, however, was one of the safest, for it consisted in hewing logs out of the forest for framing the spidery trestles and snow-sheds, hauling sawn lumber into position, and doing general teamster's work. Risks there were of course the rush of a charging boulder, or a sudden descent of shale, while occasionally a partly grubbed out trunk came thundering down before it was expected to.

It is almost certain death to speak to him in an angry or threatening manner. Friends as we have been for years, I am always very careful how I address him." The teamster's face fell and he stepped back. The heavy whip ceased to move in a menacing manner in his hand. "Prudence is always a good thing," continued Robert.

Sometimes a teamster's shouts to his horses up around the willows sent the Cap'n hobbling to the end of the rope. An unusual rattling in the bridge put him at his post with his teeth set and his eyes gleaming. One day a mild and placid little woman in dove-gray came walking from the bridge and handed over her penny.

Slavin and Yorke walked slowly down the hospital steps and climbed into the Police drag again. Sloan gathered up his lines and swung around on his high seat. "Hullo!" he remarked sleepily. "Here you are again, eh? Begun to think you were both in there for keeps! Well, did you see him?" "Yes!" answered Yorke tonelessly, avoiding the teamster's eyes, "We've seen him. Home, James!"

That, from a teamster's point of view, is the Overland Route from Oodnadatta to the Katherine.