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Updated: June 9, 2025
A horseman appeared issuing from the jaws of the chasm another, and another until eight had filed into the open ground! They were all armed men armed with guns, pistols, and knives. He in the lead was at once identified. The colossal stature, the green blanket-coat, red shirt, and kerchief turban, proclaimed that the foremost of our pursuers was Holt himself.
An old blanket-coat, or wrap-rascal, once white, but now of the same muddy brown hue that stained his visage and once also of sufficient length to defend his legs, though the skirts had long since been transferred to the cuffs and elbows, where they appeared in huge patches covered the upper part of his body; while the lower boasted a pair of buckskin breeches and leather wrappers, somewhat its junior in age, but its rival in mud and maculation.
Two of his men met with a serious disaster about this time; going across the river to trade with some Indians, their boat was stove and went to the bottom, carrying with it three blankets, a blanket-coat, and their scanty stock of merchandise, all of which was utterly lost. Another disaster, which happened next day, is thus recorded:
We sat upon our saddles with faces of the utmost surliness, while the water dropped from the vizors of our caps, and trickled down our cheeks. My india-rubber cloak conducted twenty little rapid streamlets to the ground; and Shaw's blanket-coat was saturated like a sponge.
When at work his little wide eyes flickered with a baleful, wicked light, his huge voice bellowed through the woods in a torrent of imprecations and commands, his splendid muscles swelled visibly even under his loose blanket-coat as he wrenched suddenly and savagely at some man's stubborn cant-hook stock. A hint of reluctance or opposition brought his fist to the mark with irresistible impact.
Wynn to her daughter; 'and I fear I never could get reconciled to that blanket-coat and top-boots; but he's a good man a very good man, I am sure. I found him speaking to Andy Callaghan in the kitchen about his soul; and really Andy looked quite moved by his earnestness.
You see, Moodie," he continued, "I have no hat never wear hat want no shade to my eyes love the sun see all around me up and down much better widout hat. Could not put grapes in hat blanket-coat too large, crush fruit, juice run out. I had noting but my shirt, so I takes off shirt, and brings grape safe over the water on my back.
They, also, decided that he had collected them together in order thus to injure them, and to further his designs he had presented, to each of their distinguished warriors, a blanket-coat. They found that nearly every Indian who had accepted and worn this article, had died.
The old hunter did not stand upon ceremony, nor hesitate to invade the sleeper's privacy, but marched up to the settee, his ragged old blanket-coat dripping tiny streams from every separate tatter, and proceeded at once roughly to arouse the drunken man by a prolonged and vigorous shaking. "Wha'er want? Lemme 'lone," grumbled Smiley, only dimly conscious of what was being said or done to him.
Let him be who the devil he will, log-leg or leather-breeches green-shirt or blanket-coat land-trotter or river-roller, I'll let him know there is a warrant out arter him, I know." "'Why, sais the guide, 'he couldn't help himself, no how he could work it.
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