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In a moment the low-browed villain who had charge of the hounds came galloping up on his mule, tooting signals to his dogs as he came, on the cow-horn slung from his shoulders. He immediately discovered us, covered us with his revolver, and yelled out: "Come ashore, there, quick: you s!" There was no help for it. We climbed down off the knees and started towards the land.
The eldest brother went straight for the river, which he meant to follow, and took a musket with him; the youngest ran off up the path between the corn and the wheat, and carried the cow-horn; while the biggest made for the carnelian bluff, taking neither gun nor horn, but relying on his lungs to carry any good news to the others. And behind them, as they hurried, sounded the baying of the St.
The gentle evening wind makes its voice heard, low, soft; and Walther, scorning the masters who compose and sing only by rule and, by the way, what would Wagner have done in the days when a musician had to play and sing before he could be understood or ever heard as a composer? works himself up to a state of tumultuous indignation; then a strange noise is heard in the distance, the watchman's cow-horn.
When noon came and the cow-horn summoned the family to the dinner-table, not a sign of an Indian, beyond the smoke, had been seen. So, by the end of the meal, it was decided that a visit should be paid the camp to see how many braves composed it, and why they did not move on.
After pondering for a while on the sad picture of her untimely death, she changed to one of great deeds and happiness, wealth and renown, in some far-off land toward which she was half determined to set out. But this delightful dream was rudely broken into. A long blast from the cow-horn sounded through the quiet night and echoed itself against the bluff.
As startled as the kingbird, she grasped the cow-horn and lifted it to her lips. But she did not blow a warning. The uniform retreated in cowardly haste, the tasselled hat lowered, and the eyes beseeched. A moment. Then, the man smiled and shook his hat at her roguishly. "A-ah!" he said in the tone of one who has made a discovery "I didn't know before that a fairy lives in this grove!"
A little Highlander in his tartans stood on a whisky-barrel in the middle, making his bagpipes squeal away; a Chinese with a bald head and long pigtail beat a gong, and capered with a solemn face; a Norwegian herd-boy blew a monstrous bark cow-horn; an Indian juggler twisted snakes round his neck to the sound of the tom-tom; and Lucy found herself and Leonidas whirling round with a young Dutch planter between them, and an Indian with a crown of feathers upon the other side of her.
You sweeten the Western air, Miss Marylyn." She hung the cow-horn to her wrist and turned away. Overhead the heart-shaped leaves were trembling to the rush of the river. Her heart trembled with them, and her voice. "We ain't Eastern," she said, wistful again. "I was born down yonder in the mesquite, I " She paused, glancing back at him. He stood as she had seen him first.
Marylyn let drop her bonnet and the cow-horn that hung by a thong to her wrist. Then, with folded hands, she looked up and around her, sniffing the warm air in delight. The Texas home had never offered such a lovely retreat.
A white man was their overseer, he assigned the slaves their respective tasks. There was also a slave known as a "caller." He came around to the slave cabins every morning at four o'clock and blew a "cow-horn" which was the signal for the slaves to get up and prepare themselves for work in the fields.
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