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"Plenty of light there, I should say," laughed Pratt. "The sun has left a field of glory behind him. Come on, now, Mr. Mack! Ready for this other wire?" "Glory to Jehoshaphat!" grunted the teamster. "The world was made in a shorter time than it takes to bungle this mean, ornery job! I got a holler in me like the Cave of Winds." "Hadn't we better take a bite here?" Frances demanded.
Howell to his brother-in-law, as they returned with him to camp, loaded with firewood; Sandy, boy-like, dragging the dead blow-snake after him. Oscar was playing his violin, trying to pick out a tune for the better singing of Whittier's song of the Kansas Emigrants. His father raised his hand to command silence. "That's a Yankee teamster, I'll be bound," he said, as the "Woh-hysh!
A teamster who fell asleep on the top of his load awoke in the bottom of a ravine with a shattered arm, a dead horse, and a ruined log-sled. Bill's foot was mashed by a rolling log; and last, and most far-reaching in its effect, the cook contracted spotted fever and died in a reverse curve. Moncrossen raged.
The men so charged were: Charles Auspos, alias Austin, age 38, teamster, born in Wisconsin. James D. Bates, age 29, steam fitter, born in Illinois. E. M. Beck, age 45, laborer, born in New York. Charles Berg, age 22, laborer, born in Germany. J. H. Beyer, age 56, painter, born in Michigan. J. F. Billings, age 35, cook, born in Nebraska. Charles Black, age 23, laborer, born in Pennsylvania.
Shefford accompanied an Indian teamster in to Durango with a wagon and four wild mustangs. Upon the return, with a heavy load of supplies, accident put Shefford in charge of the outfit.
The caravan, in which he was employed as a teamster, was composed of only seven wagons; but a larger one, in which were more than fifty, had preceded it, and as that was heavily laden, and the smaller one only lightly, it was intended to overtake the former before the dangerous portions of the Trail were reached, which it did in a few days and was assigned a place in the long line.
"I may not have lost flesh, but my worriment of mind for the last few hours has been awful," replied the teamster, with a grin of satisfaction at his escape. "A few hours' sleep will restore you," cried the lieutenant, pleasantly. By this time the police had extinguished the fire, which was burning too brightly for safety.
"The celebration's comin' to a head in bully style, that's the main concern," said the teamster. "I s'pose we'd better begin to invite all the boys?" "If all of 'em come," suggested a listener, "that one jack-rabbit settin' up playin' turkey will look awful sick." "I'd hate to git left on the gravy," added the carpenter "if there's goin' to be any gravy."
"I hate to be left alone, particularly when the nights are long." She indicated the teamster. "I see you have hired another man; that's a fresh extravagance. How long have you had him?" "A week or two; thought I told you when he came. He's a pretty good worker." "You didn't tell me; I imagine you didn't want me to know!
Mason was relating to Ruckel the points and the arguments of Ricord, that the company should not suffer from an act of God, viz., the caving in of the mouth of the mine, when a man named Cash, a fellow who had once been in the quartermaster's employ as a teamster, spoke up: "Governor Mason, did Judge Ricord say that?"
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