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While absent on a hunting-trip his four surviving sons took down the gourd to see what peculiar properties it had, and why it had been thus set apart. In passing it from one to the other it fell and was broken into little pieces. Instantly a vast quantity of water gushed from it, increasing in volume every instant. The water arose so that it reached their knees, and they had to climb the hills.
"Governor Barker has not been around here?" he said. "Not yet, sir. We understand he is expected through on a hunting-trip." "I suppose there is room for two and a trunk on that wagon?" "I reckon so, sir." Jessamine glanced at the man, and he took himself out. Most men took themselves out if Jessamine so willed; and it was mostly achieved thus, in amity.
And then one night came the first snow-storm; in the morning it lay white and sparkling in the sunlight and oh, the wonder of a hunting-trip, when the floor of the wilderness was like a page on which could be read the tale of all that happened in the night! One could hardly believe that so many creatures were in these woods there were tracks everywhere one looked.
"I did not say he was lazy only he won't do things except to what he calls some 'purpose. At his age amusement ought to be purpose enough. He ought to take his pleasures seriously this hunting-trip, for instance. I believe, on the very least encouragement, he would give it all up!" "You mustn't let him do that," said the colonel, warming.
He had met her several times at the show; and he heard the Major and his sister-in-law chuckling over a paragraph in the society journal, to the effect that Mrs. Virginia van Rensselaer Landis had just returned from a successful hunting-trip in the far West.
"Have you any idea what sort of a man Banks Bowen really is? His father supports him entirely six years now, ever since he left the law school. He does nothing, never will do anything. He has no will or purpose in life, except about trifles like this hunting-trip. As far as I can see he is without common sense."
Once on a hunting-trip he had gone for two weeks without shaving, and the result had not only disguised but disgusted him. His face had changed to one like those carved on cocoanuts. A recollection of this gave him great pleasure. His spirits rose happily. He saw himself in the rags of a tramp, his face hidden in an unkempt beard, skulking behind the hedges that surrounded his house.
The supplies he had brought from Mr. Mansfield's shop would not suffice to provide the family with food many days unless it was re-enforced by fresh meat; and as soon as Dick had seen to it that the horses and the broncho were safe, he made preparations for a hunting-trip.
"Harley," she said, "my husband is anxious to go on a hunting-trip. Will you go with him?" "When?" asked the boy. "Right away; to-morrow or the next day." "I'm game," said Harley. After which she went to her husband. "Douglas, it is time for you to go." He sat studying her face. "You still have that idea?" he said, at last. "I still have it."
But there is plenty to do in the camp: guns to be cleaned, tackle to be put in order, clothes to be mended, a good story of adventure to be read, a belated letter to be written to some poor wretch in a summer hotel, a game of hearts or cribbage to be played, or a hunting-trip to be planned for the return of fair weather. The tent is perfectly dry.
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