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But dressing was a slow process, because McTurk was obliged to dance when he heard that the musk basket was broken, and, moreover, Beetle retailed all King's language with emendations and purple insets. "Shockin'!" said Stalky, collapsing in a helpless welter of half-hitched trousers. "So dam' bad, too, for innocent boys like us! Wonder what they'd say at 'St.
The Ramblin' Kid looked at the broken rope the end fastened around the throat of Old Blue had whipped back and was lying far beyond the cowboy's reach. The piece half-hitched to the saddle horn was too short for another throw. Old Blue was doomed. Carolyn June saw him sinking gradually, surely, into the sand. It seemed ages. His eyes appealed with dumb pathos to the group on the bank.
"There ain't one of us but what knows you could lie faster and farther and more of it in a minute, with your tongue half-hitched around your palate and the deaf-and-dumb language barred, than any three men in Chouteau County. Don't let it worry yuh, Andy." "I ain't letting it worry me," said Andy, getting a bit red with trying not to show that the shot hit him.
Already the coils were in his hand. With a single backward fling of the noose and forward toss he dropped the loop over the head of Carolyn June. "Pull it up close under your arms!" he commanded shortly, "an' hang on with your hands to take th' strain off your body!" The girt obeyed without a word. He double half-hitched the rope to the horn of the saddle, swung Captain Jack around.
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