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Updated: June 24, 2025
Once we managed to call back, "You won't feel the journey in a buck-board." Then an overhanging bough threatening to wipe us out of our seats, Mac shouted, "Duck!" and as we "ducked" the buck-board skimmed between two trees, with barely an inch to spare. "I'm a bit of a Jehu all right!" Mac shouted triumphantly.
"You've only to ask for it and we'll send the old station buck-board across," he said, and the man began fumbling uneasily at his saddle-girths, and said something evasive about "giving trouble"; but when the Maluka afraid that a man's life might be the forfeit of another man's shrinking fear of causing trouble added that on second thoughts we would ride across as soon as horses could be brought in, he flushed hotly and stammered: "If you please, ma'am.
The hero of countless field-days turned pale, and seemed upon the point of hobbling back to "Nigger Mike's" buck-board. "You and she are old friends, I believe?" Helen interposed. "Yes! Oh yes!" Culver flashed his chum a look of dumb entreaty, but Speed was staring round-eyed into space, striving to read the future. Helen started to fetch her just as the pallid chaperon was entering the door.
Accordingly, he had accepted the Governor's invitation to return with him on his buck-board to Los Muertos, and before leaving Bonneville had telephoned to his ranch to have young Vacca bring the buckskin, by way of the Lower Road, to meet him at Los Muertos. He found her waiting there for him, but before going on, delayed a few moments to tell Harran of Dyke's affair.
The ricketty buck-board, which was their first vehicle, seemed luxurious, though after a few miles' jogging over a corduroy-road she confided to Joseph that she preferred a canoe. "Umm. No shakeum up."
For full a mile ahead the trail swept straight away, descending gently to the valley level, and there, just pushing forth upon the wide expanse, with dots of horsemen on flank and front and rear, dimly seen through the hot dust-cloud rising in their wake, were the three wagons: the foremost, with its white canvas top, was undoubtedly the new Concord; the second, a dingy mustard-yellow, the battered old ambulance of the paymaster; the third and last, with no cover at all, Moreno's buck-board.
"I'd 'av willingly bust meself cheering a procession and lining the track with frantic crowds," he said, "but I'm too fat to work up any enthusiasm over two people in a buck-board."
"As I remember," said Drummond, presently, and with hesitation, for he hated to pry into the past of a man who spoke so frankly and who made no effort to conceal his weakness, "you were driver of the buck-board the Morales gang held up last November over near the Catarinas." "Yes; that's the time I got drunk, sir.
Now and then someone more shrewd than the others would write direct to Thayor, and on the strength of a formal business answer "You might inquire of my superintendent, Mr. William Holcomb," etc., etc., would use the document to pave the way for an introduction. One evening in June a rickety buck-board rattled up to Morrison's and inquired the way to Big Shanty.
The eight occupants began to "jounce" when opposite the Orde place, and Bobby saw with admiration that this was a "spring bobs." That is to say: the board connecting the sleds was not of rigid pine, like the others, but of hickory which bent like a buck-board.
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