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Updated: June 25, 2025
'His estate was not a large one as such things go some twelve hundred dollahs, I believe. "'That's better'n breakin' a leg, I says. "'You will, perhaps, be interested to learn, he says, 'that Ah have pu'chased the hawss Trampfast with a po'tion of the money. Hyah is a lettah foh you from Mr.
They reached toward her and drew back in alarm. He was too white-livered to go through with his villainy boldly. He recorked the bottle and put it in his hip pocket. "'Nough said," he blustered. "Me, I'll git on my hawss and be joggin' along to Mex. I'll take chances on their finding you before you're starved. After that it won't matter to me when they light on yore body."
You might as well have ridden your own hawss." "It has come," he muttered. "What?" she demanded. "The letter from him." "Him?" echoed the girl, trying hard to cover her confusion with a look of surprise. His dejection deepened as he observed her heightened color and the light in her eyes. "Yes, from him," he mumbled. "Oh, you mean Mr. Blake, I suppose," she replied.
"Well, your hawss is waitin' for ye down yonder at the gate, and I don't b'lieve the Major is allowin' to ask ye to stay to supper." The railroad man scowled and recovered his dignity, or some portion of it. "You're a hospitable lot," he said, moving off toward the driveway. "You can tell the old maniac he'll hear from us later." Pettigrass stooped with his back to the portico and patted the dog.
"I ain't got the money. Why can't I just take the hawss? It's mine." "The law doesn't know it's yours." Dave left much depressed. Of course the thieves would go to a lawyer, and of course he would tell them to fight. The law was a darned queer thing. It made the recovery of his property so costly that the crooks who stole it could laugh at him.
That d d Blake that d d Gully! Stealin' my hawss away'f me an' gittin' me fined! I'll git back at somebody fur this! Pleece! yes! yeh kin holler 'Pleece! Let me get th' drop on th' red-coated, yelluh-laigged sons of ! Ah-hh!" His eyes glittered with his insane passion, "Here they come! Now! watch th' s try an' arrest me!"
Side by side they turned into the home stretch, and only two horses were in front of them Regulator and Miss Amber. The mare was under the whip. "You say you got a-a-a hawss there!" taunted Mose. "Show me how much hawss he is!" Grogan shook off the last wrap and bent to his work. Not until then did he realise that the real race was beside him and not with the chestnut out in front.
His course across country had been so accurate that he hit the herd at the point without deflecting. An old Texan drew up, changed his weight on the saddle to rest himself, and hailed the youngster. "Goin' somewheres, kid, or just ridin'?" he asked genially. "Just takin' my hawss out for a jaunt so's he won't get hog-fat," grinned the boy. The Texan chewed tobacco placidly and eyed the cowpony.
Of course Balaam had never thought the leg was sprung, and he now took on an unprejudiced air of wanting to believe Shorty's statements if he only could. "Maybe there's two years' work left in that leg," he now observed. "Better give your hawss away, Shorty," said the Virginian. "Is this your deal, my friend?" inquired Balaam. And he slanted his bullet head at the Virginian.
Not liking the accommodations, I took the first chance and flew the coop. They missed a knife in my pocket when they searched me, and I chipped the cement away from the window bars, let myself down by the bed linen, and borrowed a cow-pony I found saddled at the edge of town. So, you see, I'm a hawss thief too, ma'am."
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