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Woot watched this operation with much interest, for the Scarecrow's body was only a suit of clothes filled with straw. The coat was buttoned tight to keep the packed straw from falling out and a rope was tied around the waist to hold it in shape and prevent the straw from sagging down. The Scarecrow's head was a gunnysack filled with bran, on which the eyes, nose and mouth had been painted.
The Brown's Park man bought a plug of chewing tobacco and a shirt. "Guess the soldiers got the Utes corralled all right by this time. Hear anything new about that?" Platt asked by way of making conversation. "No," Houck replied shortly. "Got an empty gunnysack I could have?" "Sure." The storekeeper found one and a string with which to tie it.
A moment more, and he was on the street racing to spread the alarm. The leader of the bank robbers swung round on Ferril. His voice was harsh, menacing. He knew that every moment now counted. From under his coat he had drawn a gunnysack. "The bank money quick. No silver gold an' any bills you've got." Ferril opened the safe. He stuffed into the sack both loose and packed gold.
Byington had been a hard-rock Colorado miner in his youth. He examined the dam and came back to the place chosen. After taking off his coat he picked up the hammer. "Le's start. The sooner the quicker." Dave soaked the gunnysack in water and folded it over the top of the drill to deaden the sound. Buck wielded the hammer and Bob held the drill.
"That's Tag," muttered Dick. "Come on; we'll catch him." "Yes; if he'll kindly permit us to get close to him," rejoined Darry, as he ran at Dick's side. Evidently the figure ahead had made a successful raid on the food, for he carried a gunnysack, and that appeared to have a load inside.
The cattleman set his crew to work clearing a wide trail across the gorge from wall to wall. The undergrowth was heavy, and the men attacked with brush-hooks, shovels, and axes. One man, with a wet gunnysack, was detailed to see that no flying sparks started a new blaze below the safety zone. The shovelers and grubbers cleared the grass and roots off to the dirt for a belt of twenty feet.
At length they came out into a small clearing in the center of which stood a log cabin surrounded by every evidence of shiftlessness and neglect. A gunnysack did duty as a window and curtain also. The chimney at the end of the building was of sticks and clay while the roof was of "rived" shingles. At the approach of Lopez and the boys a large negro stepped out to meet them.
The unanimous sense of the meeting is that you come through with some information, Dave. Where is that gunnysack?" Dave, still sitting on the ground, leaned his back against a tree and grinned amiably at his questioner. "Sounds like you-all been to school to a parrot. You must 'a' quituated after you learned one sentence." "We're waiting for an answer, Dave."
It was worth something to have tamed so debonair a dare-devil as Dingwell had the reputation of being. He had the fellow so meek that he would eat out of his hand. Dave Caches a Gunnysack Fox rode about ten yards behind his prisoner, who plodded without spirit up the creek trail that led from the basin. "You're certainly an accommodating fellow, Dave," he jeered.
She peeped out at me and smiled, but, glancing up at her mother, hid again. Ántonia was washing pans and dishes in a dark corner. The crazy boy lay under the only window, stretched on a gunnysack stuffed with straw. As soon as we entered he threw a grainsack over the crack at the bottom of the door. The air in the cave was stifling, and it was very dark, too.
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