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My friend trembled, for he saw that the new comer did not take the one with the corner turned up. Of course he began to get his money out; and he had lots of the long green stuff, for he was a large cotton buyer from Galveston. He offered to bet $1,000, but the cow-boy said, "I won't bet less than $5,000."
A forest ranger, perhaps, whose duty it was to ride fast and far to battle with the first spark threatening the wooded solitudes; perhaps some crew in a logging-camp, than whom none knew better the danger of spreading fires; perhaps some cow-boy, even one of her own men perhaps Quinnion and Ruth? She then would hide among the rocks until they had come and gone.
Whatever may have bin his true character an' deeds, he's gone to his account at last." "Are ye sure, Hunky?" "If ye don't believe me, go in there an' you'll see what's left of him. The corp ain't cold yet." The rugged cow-boy entered at once, to convince himself by ocular demonstration. "Well," said he, on coming out of the cave, "I wish it had been the Flint instead.
Education, in the last analysis, is getting the highest intellectual value out of one's environment and opportunities. There is a cow-boy philosopher, a kitchen-philosopher, as truly as there is a philosopher of the academic halls. Conduct is the pons asinorum of life. Wise men somehow cross it, though stumblingly, and with tears.
We've materialized this burglar's ancestor!" "Oh, don't don't say that. It's hideous." "But it's true, Hawkins, I know it. Look at the facts. This apparition is distinctly English note that. It uses good grammar note that. It is an Artist note that. It has the manners and carriage of a gentleman note that. Where's your cow-boy? Answer me that."
How he would himself have revelled in the paradox "that books which were household words with every cow-boy in Nevada, and every Baboo in Bengal, were condemned by men of culture as the work of a Philistine and a mannerist"; "how ballads which were the delight of every child were ridiculed by critics as rhetorical jingles that would hardly win a prize in a public school"; "how the most famous of all modern reviewers scarcely gave us one example of delicate appreciation or subtle analysis"; how it comes about "that the most elaborate of modern histories does not contain an idea above the commonplaces of a crammer's textbook" and so forth, in the true Black-and-White style which is so clear and so familiar.
It was the little cow-boy driving his herd back to the byre. The farmer began to scold him furiously, but he answered quietly, 'I am going away, made his clothes into a bundle, said good-bye to all his friends, and boldly set out to seek his fortunes.
The fisherman's old boat still lay rocking in the cove, and the oars stood in the shed: Louie knew how to use them well, and making her preparations by daylight, and leaving the rest till nightfall, lest she should be hindered by the authorities, she found means to impress the little cow-boy into her service; and after dark a keg of sweet water was trundled down and stored amidships of the boat, with an enormous block of ice rolled in an old blanket; a basket of lemons and oranges was added, a roll of fresh bed-linen, a little box of such medicines as her last year's practice had taught her might be of use; and extorting a promise from the boy that he would leave another block of ice on the bank every night after dark for her to come and fetch, Louie quickly stepped into the boat, lifted the oars, and slipt away into the darkness of the great and quiet river.
"That's simple enough," he answered briefly. "I've got a job on this ranch." She looked slightly puzzled. "Really? But I thought I had no idea you knew Mary." "I didn't. I needed a job and drifted in here thinking I'd find a friend of mine who used to work on the same outfit in Texas. He was gone, but Miss Thorne took me on." "You mean you're a regular cow-boy?" the girl asked in surprise.
This prisoner had the appearance of just having been lassoed on the wild western prairies. He resembled a cow-boy. His whiskers were long and sandy. His hair, of the same color, fell upon his shoulders. As soon as the officer had gone away and everything had become quiet, I asked this fellow his name. "Horserider," was his reply, from which I inferred that he was a horse-thief.
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