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And then we'll have to see about getting all our capital here. We'll need every cent of it that's loose; and maybe we better sell off some of those dead-wood stocks." The twenty thousand shares were bought by the following week, five thousand of them being Consolidated Copper, ten thousand Western Trolley, and five thousand Union Cordage.
We'll have to keep those Sunday meetings up to the mark see, kid? or the other things will only bring in a lot of dead-wood that won't count. They must come to the Sunday meetings, or they don't get invited to the parties. That's the way we'll fix 'em." "There's no use saying 'must," said Leslie wisely. "If you don't have your meetings interesting, they won't come anyhow you fix it."
The baying of the hounds grew fainter behind her. But she struck a bad piece of going, a dead-wood slash. It was marvelous to see her skim over it, leaping among its intricacies, and not breaking her slender legs. No other living animal could do it. But it was killing work. She began to pant fearfully; she lost ground. The baying of the hounds was nearer.
Alexis pointed to the dead-wood under his eyes upon the bark of which were visible, not the tracks of a bear, but dabs of mud, that must have been recently deposited there, either by the feet of a bear, or some other animal. "By the Great Peter!" said Ivan, speaking cautiously, notwithstanding his innocent adjuration; "that must be his tracks?
Effect and cause came under my eye almost at the same instant. The latter I saw upon the log in hideous form the form of a couguar! Slowly advancing along the dead-wood not by bounds or paces, but with the stealthy tread of a cat his long red body stretched out to its full extent the beast more resembled a gigantic caterpillar than a quadruped.
By good fortune, however, the jaguar at the moment of showing himself was eagerly assailed by the wild pigs; and it was to escape from their assault, that he had sprung upward to the log. Thither the peccaries had pursued him, and were now endeavouring to reach the top of the dead-wood, just as they had done while after the hunters.
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