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"I dare say it would be more convenient to some people, just before our booty is divided, if I were drilled through by a blundering shot from that hayseed; or it would seem right to your high-toned chivalry if a dead-shot as I am knocked over a man who may have never fired a revolver before; but I don't exactly see it in that light, either as a man or as your equal partner.
It was quite possible that the Sakis had seen us, though we had not seen them, for our time had been more occupied in evading reptiles and wild animals than in scanning the tree-tops for their imp-like denizens. "I vote," said the Captain, who was the dead-shot of our party, "that we leave the Sakis alone. We're in their country now, you know, and there's such a thing as tempting Providence."
A squirrel would taste pretty fine, stewed in a little rice, for supper. I'll bet I get the first one." "Got some salt in your pocket?" asked Willis. "Salt, what do I want with salt? Just keep your eye on me. I'm dead-shot at squirrels." "Hello, here, what's this?" called out Mr. Allen about the middle of the afternoon. "This looks interesting to me.
He had spent money and pulled all the wires he could at the reservation to keep "Dead-Shot" Wonota in his employ. At first he did not realize that any outside agency was at work against him and for die girl's benefit. Ruth and her friends drove to a distant town to see the Indian girl when the Wild West Show played for two days.
In the evening, the Bey sent a present of a very fine bay horse to R. Marched about ten miles, and halted at Ben Sayden. The following day after starting, we left the line of march to shoot; saw one boar, plenty of foxes and wolves, and we put up another hyæna, but the bag consisted principally of partridges, the red-legged partridge or perdix ruffa, killed, by the Bey, who is a dead-shot.
"You see, I improve by practice," he observed; "and one of these days I may turn out a dead-shot." I have described the tapir here as it was the first I met, but I afterwards had better opportunities of observing the animal. As soon as our mules had rested we commenced our return, as our friend could not be long absent from Rio. We were at length once more on board the Inca.
She, on her part, could not realize any part of his dark fame as she smiled down into his big yellow-brown eyes which were as pathetic and wistful as those of a gentle animal. Mrs. Raimon spoke of this. "I saw 'Black Mose' as he stood in the streets of Wagon Wheel, the most famous dead-shot in the State. I can't realize that this is the same man.
He had also become such a dead-shot with a stone that when he managed to get within thirty yards of a bird, he was almost certain to hit it. Thus he was enabled to procure fish and fowl as much as he required and as the woods abounded with cocoa-nuts, plums, and other wild fruits, besides many edible roots, he had no lack of good fare.
The offers of the music halls Jack was inclined to consider worth while. "He'd be a great success there, or as a dead-shot in a Wild West show. They pay pretty well, too." "I don't believe he'd care to do anything like that," Mary quietly replied. They both found that he cared to do nothing which involved his remaining in the East. As his eyes grew brighter, his longing for the West came back.
"Jim, and Lance, and Jerry, and Abner?" she asked almost abstractedly. "Jim's dead-shot by a U. S. marshal by mistake for a smuggler," answered Black Andy suggestively. "Lance is up on the Yukon, busted; Jerry is one of our hands on the place; and Abner is in jail." "Abner-in jail!" she exclaimed in a dazed way. "What did he do? Abner always seemed so straight."
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