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Updated: May 11, 2025
I'm dizzy-headed, too, in high places an' I shut mine. Just give the horse a loose rein an' he'll keep the trail. There ain't nowhere else for him to go." With a deadly fear in her heart, the girl fastened her eyes upon the cowboy's back and gave her horse his head. And as she rode she wondered at this man who unhesitatingly risked his life upon the word of a horse-thief.
Dangling in mid air sixty feet above the saw-dust ring, Andy swung in space dizzy-headed, his first appearance before the circus public. Andy stared down at a sea of faces. They seemed far away. The circus manager had stepped briskly out into the ring. In great wonderment he stood gazing aloft. The audience swayed, and a general murmur filled the air. Many pointed upwards.
Why, just put a little light hand-rail from a post on either side, and let one who is strong of head walk over, resting his hand on the rail; he does not need the rail for himself but he uses it just to show how it may be a help, and so the timid and the dizzy-headed follow and feel confidence, and reach the other side in safety.
He clung to the banister, descending the stairs as a frightful clatter rang out. A boy about his own age, coming up the stairs, had collided with Dewey. Both tripped up and rolled to the front entry. The boy got up, unhurt. Dewey, groaning, half-arose, fell back, and lay prostrate, one limb bent up under him. Andy was still weak and dizzy-headed, but he acted promptly for the occasion.
I should love her if I stood on the gallows and she stood by to spring the drop and turn me off!" Truly, if the lash of remorse had lacked its keenest thong, this passionate outburst of his would have added it. None the less, I must needs be weaker than water and fall back another step and put him off. "Another time, Richard. I am strangely unnerved and dizzy-headed now.
Time after time, dizzy-headed and faint, he sat down to rest, only to rise after a moment and struggle on again. At times, too, he was obliged to shake himself free from the spells of drowsiness which the chill wind and brisk Arctic air threw over him. "We we'll make it, old boy. We we'll make it," he repeated over and over. Little by little the landscape broadened before them.
Oh, how dizzy-headed Selinda must have been! How skairt and how dretful her feelin's wuz! Sez I, "Dismount to once, Selinda Dagget." "No," sez she; "Bizer has placed me here, and here I will stay." "You don't know whether you will or not," sez I. "I believe you are a-fallin' off; and," sez I, "I'm 'fraid you'll git killed, Selinda; do git down!"
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