Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 16, 2025
She misses the seat of his pants by a fraction of an inch, and as he reaches the first cross-arm out of her reach, and drapes his form acrosst it, the reason for her sudden animosity towards him is explained. A glass jar falls out of one of his hip pockets and is dashed to fragments on the cruel bricks far below, and its contents is then seen to be peanut butter.
And he seized her as she would have jumped into the stream. While they crossed, the Indians had tied their horses and rambled into the cabin. Jake came from it to stop the Clallams. "They're after your contract," said he, quietly. "They say they're going to have the job of takin' the balance of your stuff that's left acrosst the Okanagon over to this side." "What did you say?" asked Mrs. Clallam.
"What for?" asked Bolderwood, with the usual freedom of the community, and likewise proving himself a true Yankee by responding to one question with another. "Might wanter go acrosst," said the farmer. "They say there's goin' ter be a lot o' reinforcements come up to Old Ti an' my nevvy and I want to see 'em when they come."
"I never did. I've never married any of 'em before her." "Little good that'll do yus, Lin McLean! Me and him was man and wife before ever I come acrosst yus." "You and him?" murmured the puncher. "Her and me," whimpered Lusk. "Sidney." He sat up with a limp, confiding stare at everybody. "Sidney who?" said Lin. "No, no," corrected Lusk, crossly "Sidney, Nebraska."
Ruth laughed, but reminded her that they were talking about her great-grandmother's adventures in the Indian country years and years before. "Yes, that's a fact," said Aunt Alvirah Boggs. "She did have exciting times. Why, when they was traveling acrosst them Western prairies one day, what should pop up but a band of Indians, with tall feathers in their hair, and guns mebbe bow and arrows, too.
Course, everybody's heerd queer things about him, but this beats anything I've come acrosst yet. Martin Hawk's daughter, Moll, come hoofin' it up to my cabin this mornin' an' told me the derndest story you've ever heerd. She came to me, she sez, on account of me bein' an old friend of Rachel's, an' she claims to be a decent, honest girl in spite of what her dodgasted father is.
The pull upon my ankles gave me the idea. It wur the lariat that wur round them. My mustang had stampedoed, and wur draggin' me at full gallop acrosst the parairy! "The barkin', an' howlin', an' yelpin' I heerd, wur a pack o' parairy-wolves. Half-famished, they had attacked the mustang, and started him. "All this kim into my mind at once.
"At the first stroke I thought somebody had hit me a heavy blow from behind, and I wish it had been that. It war wusser than that. It war the log had hit me, and war now lying with all its weight right acrosst my two leg's. In my hurry to git round I had sprung the trigger, and down comed the infernal log on my hams. "At fust I wan't scared, but I war badly hurt.
Is it from this that he derives his trivial name? Now a panther story was the natural winding-up of this day, and it had been already hinted that old Ike had "rubbed out" several of these creatures in his time, and no doubt could tell more than one "painter" story. "Wal, strengers," began he, "it's true thet this hyur ain't the fust painter I've comed acrosst.
Then he sprang out onto the floor of the garage. "Ryan," he bellowed to his foreman, "get the big jack, and tell Schwartz to start up the motor lathe." Then he turned to Abe and Mawruss. "This here'll be a two hours' job, gents," he said, "and I advise you to get your supper at the hotel acrosst the street." "But how much is it going to cost us?" Morris asked.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking