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Updated: June 23, 2025
Miss King gave up the attempt to write, and lay dreamily gazing at the men, roused to active consciousness now and then by the rasp of the hones against the scythe blades. At one o'clock the men, guessing it to be dinnertime, stopped pretending to work and went away.
As the big cat leaped, Mustard fastened his fangs into the beast's left leg, and was carried along with the cougar in its mighty spring. They could hear the hones grind as the iron jaws of the hound shut down on them. With a scream of rage, the maddened animal came to a sudden stop.
Their hones may be bleaching in some coulee by now, but the men who knew them then can never forget them or the part they played in that long drive. Three men from the ranch rode into our camp that evening, and the next morning we counted over our horses to them and they passed into strangers' hands.
A lucky day having been thus ascertained, the bones and ashes are brought to the iing seng, or clan puja-house, the bones of males and females being kept in separate bundles wrapped in white cloth, two women of the clan reverently carrying them in their arms, bidding the bundles of hones to their breasts. One female carries the bones of the males and the other those of the females.
That's cuttin' in on hones' competition, an' if carried out everywhere would shut off the rest of the worl' from a livin'. We're makin' our livin' let them make theirs." The old bishop was proud of the men he selected to carry out his plans. Captain Tom was manager of the Model Mill.
Just beyond the inner line of surf were stationed a regular flotilla of canoes; their boatmen were lounging about on the beach, alert for passengers, and at sight of the little procession of travelers filing down they made a grand rush. "This way, señors!" "One medio to big ship, señors." "My canoe biggest." "Try me, señors. Ver' hones'." "No. I hones', señors."
If there's a promotion in camp they want it; 'n' when they ain't out a-drillin' their companies they're sho' to be in camp 'sputin' with other rigiments as to how to do it. Good, hones' fighters, tho', and tort me how to use my side arms in a tight place. Scatterin' in some localities, but like the Baptises, whenever you find a mill-dam there'll be their camp an' plenty o' corn.
"Hones' Injun," replied Lem laconically, without looking up from his work. Presently Eli continued: "Mammy says as how the winter's comin', and some 'un ought to look out for Scraggy. She goes 'bout the lake doin' nothin' but hollerin' like a hoot-owl, and she don't have enough to eat. But she's been gone now goin' on two weeks, disappearin' like she's been doin' for a few years back.
"'Tain't nothin' that will take any money out yer pockets; 'twill put it in, more likely. We've been stealin' together for how long, Lem? How long we been pals?" "Nigh onto ten years, I'm thinkin'. It were that year that Tilly Jacobson got burned, weren't it?" "Yep, for ten years," replied Lon, ignoring Lem's last query, "and we've allers been hones' with each other.
She sought vainly for some phrase less bald than that which seemed so uncompromisingly full of embarrassment. "Did he ever try to kiss me, ye mean? No, indeed, Miss Sydney; he sho' didn'. Only one time when Ah was a girl we kep' company fo' a right smart bit, 'n one night, when a lot of us was playin' tag in the pasture, he caught me 'n kissed me. That's the only time, hones', Miss Sydney.
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