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He was that scared when this here gigantic ruffian stopped him I just happened to be a-setting in among the cedar-bushes at the time, smoking a seegar and looking on sort of casual he couldn't do nothing more'n yell out he wasn't going to shoot, and not to murder him; and then down he jumped from the box me a-smoking away looking at him, and this here ruffian a-shooting his Winchester across the top of the coach to where he said he thought he seen a jack-rabbit and cut out the near wheeler; and then he scrambled up anyhow on that mule's back, and away he went down the barranca as hard as hell!"
The white cherry and pear-blows the wild violets, with their blue eyes looking up and saluting my feet, as I saunter the wood-edge the rosy blush of budding apple-trees the light-clear emerald hue of the wheat-fields the darker green of the rye a warm elasticity pervading the air the cedar-bushes profusely deck'd with their little brown apples the summer fully awakening the convocation of black birds, garrulous flocks of them, gathering on some tree, and making the hour and place noisy as I sit near.
The hill along whose side the bison path went winding down to the river with an easy descent, was nearly bare of trees, its barren soil affording nourishment only for a coarse grass, enamelled with asters and other brilliant flowers, and for a few stunted cedar-bushes, scattered here and there; while, in many places, the naked rock, broken into ledges and gullies, the beds of occasional brooks, was seen gleaming gray and desolate in the sunshine.
Severe as was the cold outside, and thin as appeared the walls, the heat from the fire kept us thoroughly warm; and I never slept more soundly in my life, for, although our hosts were Redskins, we felt as secure as in our own hut. Notwithstanding that the storm raged without, the wigwams were so well protected by the cedar-bushes that the fierce wind failed to reach us.
Well, Hart's nephew said he'd just got the coach down to the bottom of the barranca he'd took the last of the slope at a run, he said, and was licking away at his mules for all he was worth to start 'em up the far side when the road-agents opened on him, being hid in among the cedar-bushes, from the top of the bank and from both sides of the trail.
I told him to let our boys alone or I'd snap his neck off short. Great Jehosephat, but I wanted a chance to git up town and give some o' them cold-deckers a whirl." "Well," said Conductor Madden, after some deliberation, "I believe what you boys say. You're not the kind to get rattled and make rebels out of cedar-bushes. All the same, there's nothing to do but go ahead.
The rude awakening which her words caused me made me look quite absurd in my own eyes, and with the sudden consciousness that I had been making a fool of myself, pondering over such shadowy improbabilities, as they seemed to me now, I turned sharply and impatiently from the spot where I had been standing, and passing through a rustic gateway at the end of the walk, I flung my innocent water-pot, with a gesture of desperate anger, in among the cedar-bushes that skirted the causeway leading into the lawn, and passed into the house.
The thick cedar-bushes sheltered the spot completely from the wind, and the fire which burned in the centre afforded us a welcome warmth; for, in spite of the exercise we had gone through, our blood was chilled by the piercing snowstorm.
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