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Washburn dropped his brush and currycomb under the desk, and, full of concern, stood looking down at him. "Thought I'd come down before breakfast" said Westerfelt. "How was business yesterday?" "Good; nearly everything out, and it wus most all cash very little booked." "Wash?" "Yes, sir." "How much did I agree to pay you by the month?" "Thirty dollars." Washburn glanced at the open ledger.
They were happy at the prospect of breakfast, but a curious preliminary was that each came out upon the platform, and, taking a currycomb which was hung up for the purpose, curried himself, much as an ostler administers that treatment to a horse every negro grasping in his turn the large wooden handle and pulling the iron teeth through his plentiful wool.
The truth shining in her clear eyes was unmistakable. Lingle broke off a handful of sagebrush and used it as a makeshift currycomb, while Kate, a little surprised at the action, picked up the bridle reins when he had finished the gratuitous grooming and started the sheep moving. "I'll feed back to camp slowly. Don't wait for me you and the herder eat supper." "Anything I can do, ma'am?"
He climbed rocky mountain-sides as readily as a buck, and never wandered from a path by darkest night. He drank and apparently relished the murky water of mud-pools and needed but little attention with the currycomb and brush. He was trained to obey the slightest turn of the reins, and a slight whistle brought him to a full stop.
His packing finished, with one last glance at the room Austen went downstairs with his valises and laid them on the doorstep. Then he went to the stable and harnessed Pepper, putting into the buggy his stable blanket and halter and currycomb, and, driving around to the front of the house, hitched the horse at the stone post, and packed the valises in the back of the buggy.
At these words the two little donkeys were quite stupefied and stood with their heads down, their ears lowered, and their tails between their legs. At first the little man stroked and caressed them; then, taking out a currycomb, he currycombed them well.
He wore a tattered black robe, shortened at the knees to facilitate walking, a frizzled wig, looking as if it had been dressed with a currycomb, a pair of black breeches, well-patched with various colors; and gamaches of brown leather, such as the habitans wore, completed his odd attire, and formed the professional costume of Master Pothier dit Robin, the travelling notary, one of that not unuseful order of itinerants of the law which flourished under the old regime in New France.
Badcock's neck, whereby the poor man was made uncomfortable all that day and the next; for the hairs of the insect turned out to be full of poison. In the end we were forced to strip him and use the gridiron upon him for a currycomb; so it came in handy, after all.
I was not half so good an ostler as old Bill, who had never been presented with a silver currycomb, and I never expected to become so, therefore what chance had I? It was true, there was a prospect of some pecuniary emolument to be derived by remaining in either situation.
But, Fieldings excluded, there are many Tom Joneses. Racey did not react. "Dunno him," denied Racey Dawson. "I heard his name was Nebraska." "Nebraska is what the boys call him," she said. "He used to be foreman of the Currycomb outfit south of Fort Seymour." "I've heard of Nebraska Jones and the Currycomb bunch all right," he admitted, soberly.
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