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Why didn't you wait till we was comin' back before springin' this mine on us?" "Keep still there," commanded Pete, from the tree. "Drive on through the river, and up on this bank, and then stop! You hear?" "I'd hear ye, I reckon, if I was plumb deef," complained Mack. "That rifle you handle so permiscuous speaks mighty plain." "Let them on hossback mind it, too," added the man in the tree.
There you be," he continued, "stuck up four five feet up in the air like a clo'espin, havin' your backbone chucked up into your skull, an' takin' the skin off in spots an' places, expectin' ev'ry next minute the critter'll git out f'm under ye no, sir," he protested, "if it come to be that it was either to ride a hossback fer the fun o' the thing or have somebody kick me, an' kick me hard, I'd say, 'Kick away. It comes to the same thing fur 's enjoyment goes, and it's a dum sight safer."
Gradually they neared a patch of timber near the northern boundary of the ranch. The cowboy said he was looking for two calves that had strayed away. "And it ain't no use to follow 'em into the woods on hossback," he explained. "I have an object in coming here," declared Allen, at last. "I am watching out for Peter Levine." He felt he could trust Rawlinson.
"Callate you're sizable enough." "Wish you was in the House," remarked Mr. Adams of Barren. "None of us is much on talk, but if we had you, I guess we could lay things wide open." "If you was thar, and give it to 'em as hot as you did when you was talkin' for Zeb, them skunks in the front seats wouldn't know whether they was afoot or hossback," declared Mr.
Dang my boottons! she looks faine and handsome o' hossback sits as upraight as a dart, wi' a figure like a statty! Misthress Sharp has promised to put me behaind one o' the doors when the ladies are comin' doon to dinner, so as I may sae the young un i' full dress, wi' all her curls an' that.
"The ruffians, more'n twenty of 'em, is coming up the road on hossback, at full gallop!" It looked like another fight against great odds. Captain Grundy's claim that he was in the Confederate service was undoubtedly pure fiction; and he did not even pretend to have a commission of any kind, not even as a Partisan Ranger.
"What now?" "I may be mistaken, but don't go on the bridge on hossback." "Why not?" "I'll tell you after I've examined the bridge," answered Sid Todd, and in a manner that mystified Dave very much. Arriving at the bridge, Sid Todd told Dave to halt, and the pair dismounted. As they did so they heard a sound in the bushes beside the stream. They looked in the direction, but saw nobody.
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