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"No matter about this shod horse and his back-track," he continues, once more heading his own animal to the trail. "We've now only to do with those that have gone forward, and forward let us haste." While speaking he strikes his ponderous spurs against his horse's ribs, setting him into a canter, the others starting off at the same pace.
"Right on the first ballot," Lanky assented. "I'm only riding for one brand at a time." "One day right soon I'll run across you again," Morrow prophesied. "Then I'll take to riding with my head over my shoulder surveying my back-track," Lanky promised. "Because we'll most likely meet from behind."
For we so seldom get the proper focus on things until we look at them through the clarifying telescope of Time; and then one realizes with a pang that he can't back-track into the past and take his old place in the passing show. Would we, if we could? It's an idle question, I know; wise men and musty philosophers say that regrets are foolish.
The second, "Organization of Credit and Circulation," sums up in a few pages his idea of economical progress: a gradual reduction of interest, profit, rent, taxes, and wages. All progress hitherto has been made in this manner; in this manner it must continue to be made. Those workingmen who favor a nominal increase of wages are, unconsciously following a back-track, opposed to all their interests.
"No; this ain't my day for jokin'. You want to put them stakes o' mine back." She stood on guard till it was done. "And now I'd advise you, like a mother, to back-track home. You'll find this climate very tryin' to your health." They went farther up the slope and marked out a claim on the incline above the bench.
It would take them days to perform it on foot, and nothing is more discouraging on a journey than to be forced by some accident to what is called "taking the back-track." All of them acknowledged this, but what else could they do? It is true there was a post of the Hudson's Bay Company at the northern end of Lake Winnipeg. This post was called Norway House. How were they to reach that afoot?
By the time he recovered his seat, Bob was in full career, bolting the way he had come, and making Wolf side-jump to the bushes. "All right, darn you!" Daylight grunted, driving in spurs and quirt again and again. "Back-track you want to go, and back-track you sure will go till you're dead sick of it."
An' I won't back-track their game none further than Columbus at that. The savages may have found life a summer's dream prior to the arrival of that Eytalian mariner an' the ornery Spainiards he surrounds himse'f with. But from the looks of the tabs, the deal since then has gone ag'inst 'em. The Injuns don't win once. White folks, that a-way, is of themse'fs bad luck incarnate to Injuns.
Something began to tighten around my heart, an' I didn't want to go; but I had put my hands to the plow, an' I didn't intend to back-track till I'd turned one full furrow. "Yes," I sez. "Honor bright, just as soon as I've give it a fair trial I'll come back an' let you know." "You'll come before it snows if you can, won't you?" she sez, an' I nodded.
He knew, also, that if the animal had been wandering several hours, as was likely, it would be impossible to back-track far. Late as it was, Aaron King rode up the canyon to tell Myra Willard and Conrad Lagrange the result of the day's work. The artist's voice trembled as he told the general opinion of the mountaineers; but Myra Willard said, "Mr. King, they are wrong. My baby will come back.
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