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Updated: June 13, 2025
Each man gripped his revolver and set his teeth. Here, evidently, from this ordinarily deserted and distant part of town, a flanking attack was to have been delivered. As they drew nearer they made out wagons; and nearer still-bale upon bale of gunny sacks, and shovels! The truth dawned on them, and a great laugh went up. "Sold! Sold! Sold!" they cried.
The house was a typical pioneer cabin, with a puncheon floor, which was uneven, dirty, and splotched with grease. The girl was bare-footed and wearing a dirty white sort of cotton gown of the modern Mother Hubbard type, that looked a good deal like a big gunny sack. From what came under my observation later, it can safely be stated that it was the only garment she had on.
"Supreme Court decision just come down in your favor?" asked the other claimant to the valley with genial irony. "No, but guess what I've got here." "A new hat," hazarded Gordon, furrowing his brow in deep thought. "Treason!" protested Manuel. "Does the lady live who would put her new hat in a gunny sack?" "You may have three guesses, each of you," replied Miss Valdés, dimpling.
Where's yours?" and some of the Panama's passengers held up round little buckskin sacks; others slapped their shirt bosoms; and one man, amidst laughter, even held, in both hands, a large gunny sack which probably contained potatoes or yams. "How are things at the mines?" "Booming. Better hurry or you'll be too late, stranger." "Plenty of gold?" "Millions of it."
There, a few yards ahead of my wagon, was a great hole in the ground, made by badgers; or it may have been the palace of a king of prairie dogs. Quickly I drove my team forward, right over it. Then, pretending to be rearranging my cargo, I took out the end gate of my wagon and covered the hole with it. Next, I wet some gunny sacks and placed them on the ground under the board.
With a watch in his hand, the captain of the squad gave the keepers ten minutes to open the doors and deliver the culprits. I well remember the excitement that increased in intensity as the allotted period diminished; the fuse lighted, and two minutes to spare; the door opened; the delivery was made, and the march to Fort Gunny began.
The pair sat upon some gunny sacks in the little cellar until their eyes became accustomed to the darkness; they could dimly see each other by the faint light which came to them through some cracks in the floor above. They heard steps at the rear of the house; then the pound of hoofs from in front. Rathburn saw Lamy staring at him fixedly with a puzzled look. He frowned at him.
"Oh, look," she cried. "There's a lot of sort of ledges down there. Wide ones of all different heights." "We'll go swimming to-night!" she said excitedly. "By moonlight." "Wouldn't you rather go in at the beach on the other end?" "Not a chance. I like to dive. You can use my uncle's bathing suit, only it'll fit you like a gunny sack, because he's a very flabby man.
He became a member of our firm "Gunny, Giggles, and Dumps" thenceforth through my favor; for I could not then, nor can I now, be indifferent to his courage and prowess in defending against Giggles the immemorial right of his sex to insult a strange and unprotected female myself.
There are lots of gunny sacks we can cover over the box until it gets warmer." "They will dig the whole farm up and spoil the garden when spring comes." Gail was perplexed. How could she refuse the children's eager eyes? Yet clearly they could not keep the little animals.
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