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Updated: May 11, 2025
What she was afraid would happen came to pass like a flash. Her foot slipped, she lost her balance, and the next instant was precipitated into the river! When the motion picture girl fell from the sycamore tree into the water, some of the members of the company, who sat or stood near by panting after their hard chase cross-lots, actually laughed at their unfortunate comrade's predicament.
"If they don't, they're heretics an' sinners, an' there's no good in 'em whatever." Then the little school-teacher bade good-bye to Hucks and his wife, told them to keep brave hearts, and rode her pony cross-lots to Thompson's Crossing. "Well," said Uncle John, looking out of the car window, "we're nearly there."
There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you can't be happy cross-lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.
I shorely thinks we better rectify them omissions an' 'lect a jedge at once." "'Which I'm opposed to these proceedin's," interrupts Cimmaron. "I'm plumb adverse to co'ts. Them law-wolves gets into 'em, an' when they can't find no gate to come at you, they ups an' pushes down a panel of fence, an' lays for you, cross-lots. I'm dead ag'in these proceedin's."
If the whole surrounding country went "cross-lots" over his land, there was no objection; what difference did it make? And besides, it was the farmers and ranchmen who gave him employment. He would not sell any land, though. Right here was where he exercised his private right. He liked things well enough as they were.
Most of the boys nowadays join so they can ride a horse cross-lots, pack a pair of guns, and give rein to the predilections of a vicious ancestry. They're bad rams, most of 'em." "There aren't many," said Paloma. "Dave tells me the whole Force has been cut down to sixteen." "That's plenty," her father averred. "It's like when Cap'n Bill McDonald was sent to stop a riot in Dallas.
He had not nose enough to follow alone, but as had been said, he wasn't afraid of anything. So as there was nothing else to do, a boy was sent cross-lots after Growler, while the hunters waited impatiently. Growler and the boy at last put in an appearance, and the mongrel was shown the bear-track in the road.
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