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To the same end, Alex and Jack used their magazine-rifles as single-shots, holding the magazines, fully charged, in reserve. "I think I'm getting one of them now and then," Alex was saying about half an hour after the disappearance of the Indian. "Or else " He broke off to fire again. "Unless their ammunition is giving out over there." Suddenly Jack snapped open his magazine.
The farms are bringing in mowing-machines and threshing-machines into this country now. The game can't last forever at this rate." "Well, I'm glad we made our trip this year," said Rob. "We haven't made it yet!" smiled Alex. "But I think to-morrow we'll see what we can do."
"Reading the card quickly, I said to him: 'Thank you, Alex, may I have another one of these cards? "He handed me another one, saying, 'Vot you vant mit anudder vun? "'I want one to hold as a keepsake of the man, of all men, who is gladdest to see me when I get around; the other I shall pin to the order I shall take from you today and send to my firm.
Cy Skinner, when on the way to the scaffold, broke and ran, calling on his captors to shoot. They declined, and hanged him. Alex Carter, who was on the fatal line with Skinner in that lot, was disgusted with him for running. He asked for a smoke while the men were waiting, and died with a lie on his lips "I am innocent." That is not an infrequent declaration of criminals at the last.
S'pose we put that hide in canoe, she'll sink unless we eat up all the grub pile." Alex told Moise to unroll the bear hide so that it might dry as much as possible. He then set all of them at fleshing the hide, a task none of them seemed to relish.
As the old man climbed the platform steps and extended a shaking hand, the applause that burst from every corner of the room fairly rattled the windows; and as the uproar continued, and Alex sprang hastily to the floor, he was surrounded by a jostling, enthusiastic crowd of strangers from whom in vain he sought to escape.
"Have you a match and some paper?" said Alex, going hurriedly through his own pockets. "Some matches." "Here's a couple of letters. Come on back to the rails, find some chips, and make a fire. See if we can't answer him, and learn what the trouble is."
As Bob rushed forward to separate them, the two bucks stepped up to each other and placed their heads together, when Alex, seeing Bob trying to separate them, shouted: "That's right, Bob, take your big fellow away or mine will kill him."
It's a mighty bad feeling I know what it is myself. What would you do, Alex, if you ever got lost in a storm, or anything of that kind?" "Sit down and build a fire," answered Alex. "Go to sleep, take it easy, and wait till my mind got cool. Then when you're rested and all ready to go on, you nearly always know which is the right direction.
There were perhaps a couple of dozen girls scattered about the place besides. The friends found a corner with a big plush couch which took three of them, and a chair for Alex. A waiter bustled up and they ordered drinks, which came on little saucers marked with the price. Peter lay back luxuriously. "Chin-chin," said the other Australian, and the others responded. "That's good," said Pennell.
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