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Updated: May 21, 2025
It was sad mockery, but David held doggedly to his belief that finally things would come right. His hands closed rigidly upon the sides of the fence-post, and from beneath the tight-shut eyelids slow tear-drops were squeezing out. It was so that Dr. Redfield found him. With medicine-case in hand, the physician had come down the walk from the desolate, scowling house.
"Let us not think of it to-night," she murmured, her eyes burning into his face. The first gray of the morning was revealing the outlines of the scrub oaks in the field as the two came back to the cottage. Sommers tied his horse to a fence-post at the end of the lane, and went in to warm himself from the chill of the night air. Mrs.
With one small ear laid back to listen for the other horses, little white Flossie flew along the grassy track, darting around the chapparal bushes which had grown up and jumping the fallen tree trunks. Suddenly we came out of the woods and she shied violently at a man who was digging a fence-post hole, directly in the road.
It shone over a broad surface of glistening snow, with here and there a fence-post obtruding into notice, but otherwhere a cold, blank expanse of whiteness. One or two remote farm-houses, with blue smoke rising in thin, straight columns from their chimneys, a wide stretch of woodland to the right, distant hills bounding all the prospect, and everywhere snow.
If you only got the farm you'd marry a hussy from the gutter, or a fence-post, wouldn't you? But oh, ho ho!" she laughed scornfully, "you've struck the wrong girl; I don't have to have a husband; I don't want any, and least of all a man that would marry a lamp-wick if there was a little oil on it. If you won't start off I'll walk home alone," and with that she was about to dart out of the door.
Then out on the still air rang a piercing, hysterical laugh. And Prudence stretched out her arm and clutched at the barbed-wire fence-post as though her mirth had overcome her. Hervey looked sharply round upon her. Neche gave a low growl, the noise seemed to have offended him; then he limped off down the trail back to the house. Hervey's look of surprise quickly changed to one of displeasure.
The sun's heat dancing and dazzling across every white fence-post, sandhill, or light-coloured object in the distance. One man takes off his boot and sock, empties half a pint of sand out of them, and pulls up his trouser-leg.
It was a puff of air against his cheek that suggested the answer. The prevailing wind! What was it here? Southwest! In a moment he was on his knees at the foot of the adjacent fence-post. On the farther side, half covering the dead grass, was a small eddy of sand! Hopefully Alex hastened to the next post. The same!
And I don't know what kind of heroism goes with a poetic nature. I'm afraid Mr. Bacon " He laughed. "I am sure he would have acted like a man." "If you were to ask father, he'd say that Mr. Bacon can't act like a man to save his soul. He says he acts like a fence-post."
She gave him directions about the meal and went out to the garden to get some radishes and lettuce. On the way she had to pass the corral. Her brother Hal, Slim Sanders, and Cherokee Street were roping and branding some calves. The guest of the house had hung his coat and hat on a fence-post to keep them from getting soiled, but the hat had fallen into the dust.
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