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Updated: September 10, 2025
To explain her bare head, she had prepared a little speech about running down without a hat because of the fine night, but Partridge was too agitated to notice what she wore. When they stepped inside, the first thing that met Chook's eyes was the hat with the wonderful feathers lying on a chair where Pinkey had disdainfully thrown it.
Your slightest attention will make mountains of difficulty for her, and she is not going with you to-night even if you mean to marry her to-morrow." Pinkey turned nearly white. "Marry her!" he exclaimed, "Why, I'm engaged to a girl back home." "Why, I never intended to marry her," he went on, more concerned than at any time before. "I was just having a little flirtation." A little flirtation!
"I hope the horses are perfectly safe, because my heart isn't good, and when I'm frightened it goes bad and my lips get just as b-l-u-e!" "They look all right now," said Pinkey, after giving them his careful attention. Miss Eyester observed wistfully: "I hope I will get well and strong out here."
They have a painless death, for they curl up in the snow and fall into a sleep from which they will never wake. We are left with one dog, Pinkey. He has not been one of the pullers, but he is not despised. We can afford to give him plenty of biscuit. We must nurse him and see if we cannot return with one dog at least. At one stage a terrific gust came along and capsized the sledge.
Wallie demanded, his eyes shining. "It's all right," Pinkey murmured, absently. "You're not looking," Wallie said, sharply. "I was watchin' them cattle." "I don't see any." Pinkey pointed, but Wallie could see nothing. "If they got cows on Mars, I'll bet I could read the bran's," Pinkey boasted. "Can't you see them specks movin' off yonder?" Wallie admitted he could not.
His emphasis was not flattering. "I shan't tell you yet," declared Wallie. Pinkey continued to eye them suspiciously. "They kinda remind me of a mummy I seen in a side-show; then, again, they look like incubator childern roasted. Them teeth are what git me. I can't quite place 'em. 'Tain't wood-pussy or nothin', Wallie? 'Tain't no notorious animal like pole-kitty?" Wallie looked offended.
'Don't drink nor smoke? said Pinkey. 'Gad, sir, you must be mighty sweet on the ladies. Ha!" The Colonel paused long enough to allow the faint flush to pass from Hotchkiss's cheek, and went on, half closing his eyes: "'I allow no man, sir, to discuss my personal habits, declared Doolittle, over his shirt collar. 'Then I reckon shootin' must be one of those habits, said Pinkey coolly.
"All right," said Chook, with regret, "I'll give it to mother fer one of the kids." "Yer can burn it, if yer like," cried Pinkey. Chook held up the hat, and examined it with interest. It was quite unlike any he had seen before. "See 'ow it look on yer," he coaxed. "Not me," said Pinkey, glaring at the hat as if it were Mrs Partridge.
Wallie grew warm every time he thought of such a message addressed to him coming over the wire. Though worse than inelegant, and partially unintelligible, it was plain enough that what he wanted was there if he went for it, and he had replied that Pinkey might look for him shortly in Prouty. And to-day he was leaving!
Boise Bill had prophesied that he would not "winter" yet here he was with every reason to believe that he would also "summer." Wallie felt rather invincible as he reflected upon it, and the aurora borealis did not exceed in colour the outlook his fancy painted that evening. "It's eight-thirty," Pinkey hinted. "When I set up till all hours I over-sleep in the morning."
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