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It was about dusk as they entered their bullhide boat, and the two Sioux stood there looking at them. "Suddenly Big Whip exclaimed: 'Friend, let us kill the chief. I dare you to kill and scalp him! His friend replied: "'It shall be as you say. I will stand by you in all things. I am willing to die with you. "Accordingly Bald Eagle pulled out his gun and shot the Ree dead.
All these other girls seemed to have some particular object. Was she going to school without any real reason for it? Uncle Bill would be proud of her, of course. She practised assiduously to perfect her piano playing. That was something that would show out in Bullhide and on the ranch. Uncle Bill would crow over her playing just as he did over her bareback riding.
Bill Hicks, of Bullhide, Montana, would say, was so amusing that Tom's twin forgot her fright. "Stop your fooling and get in there quick!" commanded the anxious boy, pushing his sister into the tonneau. With the injured Jerry, the back of the car was well filled. Tom leaped into the front seat and tried to start the car. "Quick, Tom!" begged Ruth Fielding. "There's the panther." "Panther!
It had come all the way from Silver Ranch, of course. Such a set of furs no girl at Briarwood possessed. There were a number of other presents from the cowboys, from Mrs. Sally, and from Bashful Ike himself. Ann was so pleased and touched that she ran away to hide her tears. There were presents for each of the girls and boys who had been at Bullhide the previous summer.
It was early in 1540 that the gallant expedition set out, some of the horsemen arrayed in brilliant coats of mail and armed with swords and lances, others wearing helmets of iron or tough bullhide, while the footmen carried cross-bows and muskets, and the Indians were armed with bows and clubs. Splendid they were—but woe-befallen were they to be on their return, such of them as came back.
"The boys wouldn't leave much o' that constable if they caught him playin' tag for such a man as Blent, at Bullhide," Ann Hicks declared, with warmth. "This Blent," said Bobbins, seriously, "seems to have everybody about Logwood buffaloed. What do you suppose your father will say to the constable taking the men with him this morning to hunt Jerry down?"
His comments told of the imaginative power born in his Celtic blood: "Bill, let's play you are the Red Dermid smiting the bullhide bearing Lachlin," he would shout, and at once the brightness of his mental picture and his familiarity with the nursery tales of Erin that were current even in the woods created a wonder-world about him. Then his Ulster mind would speak.
He accepted the chair that Judge Thayer pushed toward him, nodding to the bone-wagon man who came sauntering past the door at that moment, the long lash of his bullhide whip trailing in the dust behind him. "You've come to settle with us, I hear?" said the judge. "I'm looking around with that thought, sir." "I don't know how you'll do at the start in the optical way, Mr.
As all the chairs in the living room were very plain, made of solid oak, with bullhide seats and backs, this remark was received with laughter. "Go aheadt!" said Carl. "Ven you ain'dt drough, let me know. I know your own bizziness.
Jerry Sheming was standing half-leg deep in the running stream, his hands over his head, and the men were holding him under the muzzles of their guns. "Why! it beats the 'wild and woolly'!" gasped Tom Cameron. "Silver Ranch and Bullhide weren't as bad as this. The scoundrels!" "Come out o' that brook, Jerry, or it'll be the wuss for ye."
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