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Come, ladies, don't stand on ceremony take what you can get and be thankful: who knows whether we shall be able to find so much as a house where we can spend the night? At this rate we shall not reach Totes till to-morrow afternoon." They still hesitated, nobody having the courage to take upon themselves the responsibility of the decisive "Yes." Finally the Count seized the bull by the horns.
I'm the kind of a sportsman who goes into the woods as light as possible give me a frying pan, coffee pot, tin cup and a pie platter, some pepper and salt, some matches, a camp hatchet to cut browse for my bed, and my trusty rifle with which to supply the game, and I warrant you I can get along as well as the fellow who makes a pack-horse of himself, and totes all sorts of canned goods over the carries."
He totes off a side of meat or a bushel of meal and brings a cactus stalk in; or he will confiscate your saddlebags and leave you in exchange a nice dry chip. He is honest, but from what I can gather he never gets badly stuck on a deal. Next morning at breakfast Johnny and Bill were doing a lot of laughing between them over something or other. Copyright, 1914, by George H. Doran Company.
Over it all they put a loose, brown Bedouin cloak of camel-hair such as any man expecting to travel across deserts might invest in, whatever his nationality; it was hotter than Tophet, but, as the Arabs say, what keeps the heat in will also keep it out. It gives you a feeling of carrying your home around with you on your back, the way a snail totes its shell, and there are worse sensations.
Three times the men of the party got out and climbed the hills on foot. The passengers were becoming uneasy, for they had counted on lunching at Totes, and it seemed now as if they would hardly arrive there before nightfall. Every one was eagerly looking out for an inn by the roadside, when, suddenly, the coach foundered in a snowdrift, and it took two hours to extricate it.
The men got out three times and climbed the hill on foot. They began to grow anxious, for they were to have lunched at Totes, and now they despaired of reaching that place before night. Everybody was on the look-out for some inn by the way, when the vehicle stuck fast in a snowdrift, and it took two hours to get it out.
"I ain' no gord. I'se jess one o' dese low-down or'nary toters. Me an' him totes folks roun' de hotel." "A very useful function that, Sambo; and where were you born?" I asked. "North Carolina, or Georgia?" "Me?" he replied, looking at me quizzically. "I guess yo's on'y foolin', massa. Me? Why, I 'ain't never been borned at all, sah " "Jess growed, eh like Topsy?" I asked.
In this scene" and here the woman pulled the manuscript back "when that little queen totes her heavy but sanctified heart up the trail, men and women will shed tears that will do them good tears that will make them see plain duty clearer. Men and yes, women, too, Camby want to be decent, only they've lost the way. This will help them to find it!" "We've got to have two strong men."
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