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"No doubt," continued my friend, with a smile, "you may shoot deer from your own door; or trap wolves and wild-cats at the entrance to your hen-roost." "Good!" "O yes though I can't promise that you will see anything of Venus in the woods, you may enjoy to your heart's content the noble art of venerie. The Obion bottom is a very paradise for hunters.
It is not merely that they are rough diamonds, which might have been polished into blazing ones, not merely that they are thoroughbred colts drawing coal-carts, which with fair training would have been new Eclipses: it is that they are vinegar which might have been wine, poison which might have been food, wild-cats which might have been harmless lambs, soured miserable wretches who might have been happy and useful, almost devils who might have been but a little lower than the angels.
As soon as this sail was set, the stern of the ship swung round towards the inlet, so as to turn the bow on which the gun was placed towards the part of the reef where the Arabs were in greatest numbers. "Be steady, men! and do not hurry yourselves, though active as wild-cats! Up, and away!"
Deer, elk, bears, buffaloes, panthers, wolves, wild-cats, and foxes, abounded in the thick tangles of the green cane; and in the open woods, pheasants, partridges, and turkeys, were as plenty as domestic fowls in the old settlements. Such were the materials, from which these hunters, on their return formed descriptions that fixed in the remembrance, and operated upon the fancy of all who heard.
These miners, and the rest of this Tlahuico outfit, will fight like wild-cats as long as they're on top, but every bit of fight will go right out of them the minute they find that they're beginning to get underneath. That's the Indian way. I'm trying hard to believe that our crowd will whip the other crowd; but I must say, Professor, that I'm not betting on it."
Bruce's eyes opened and he stared for the fraction of a second at the rudeness of the question, then they flashed as he answered shortly. "I'm not peddling wild-cats, or selling mining stock to widows and orphans if you happen to be either." Capital is not accustomed to tart answers to its humor caustic, from persons in need of financial assistance for their enterprises.
He bought a mile on the great Vlaic and lives there all alone, shooting, fishing, playing the guitar o' moony nights, which they say sets the wild-cats wilder. Mark me, George, a petty mile square and a shooting shanty, and this languid ass says he means to fight for it. Lord help the man! I told him I'd buy him out to save him from embroiling us all, and what d' ye think?
"Back Tom has got eyes in the back o' his head, I do believe, and shoots dead like a flash " "Not that time he missed you at Traitor's Trap, I think," said the other. "Of course not 'cause we was both mounted that time, and scurryin' over rough ground like wild-cats. The best o' shots would miss thar an' thus.
They were of a race unsteady as aspens and fierce as wild-cats, full of mutual jealousies, without rulers, and without laws; for each was a law to himself. It was difficult to persuade them, and, when persuaded, scarcely possible to keep them so.
"After that we loaded in moderation, an' got on better." "And the pirates what did they think o' the new weapon?" asked Peter Davidson, with an amused expression. "O! they couldn't stand it at all," answered the sailor, looking up from his work, with a solemnity that was quite impressive. "They stood fire only once. After that they sheered off like wild-cats.
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