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Thereupon Pocus loudly reproached Hocus in the servants' hall, saying that the compact had only stood for things in reason, whereat Hocus took off his coat and offered to "Take him on," and Pocus, thinking better of it, managed for his share to place in the household such relatives as he could, namely, Cohen to whom he was in debt, Bernstein his brother-in-law and all his family of five except little Hugh that blacked the boots for the Priest, and so was already well provided for.
Now you may practise an hundred delicious things to please your appetites, & do as many Hocus Pocus tricks more. Now you may outdo Aretin, and all her light Companions, in all their several postures.
He had been here sawing through the posts so our best bunch of cattle would get out and be spoiled. The hound! Wait until I get hold of him!" "Better go a bit slow," advised Pocus Pete, in his drawling tones. "Slow! What do you mean?" "Well, I mean it isn't a good thing t' go around makin' accusations like that, without somethin' t' back 'em up.
"Yes, that's how it happened," said Mr. Carson. "But I certainly thought both steer and pony fell on you." "I managed to roll out of the way," said Dave, grimly. "Lucky for you," commented Pocus Pete. "That's one of the biggest and worst steers on the ranch, and he weighs something, too." "His own weight broke his neck," said Tubby, reflectively.
And if the Molicks had a hand in starting it, which seems reasonable to believe, they probably did it out of revenge for the breaking of the dam. But we had a perfect moral, if not a legal, right to do that," the Chicago man said. They rode back slowly, and soon overtook Pocus Pete, who was ambling along on his injured pony.
He straightened up in the saddle, and drew in deep breaths of the pure air of the plains; an air so pure and thin, so free from mists, that the very distances were deceiving, and one would have been positive that the distant foot-hills were but half an hour's ride away, whereas the better part of a day must be spent in reaching them. "Yes, this is livin' that's what it is," agreed Pocus Pete."
Leaping on their snorting ponies the cowboys rode back, leaving behind them two fires where before there had been but one. But soon the two would merge into one, leaving a broad, blackened barren strip, that contained no fuel for the flames. "It's lucky we struck that swale where the wind blew in the other direction," Dave remarked. "Mighty lucky," assented Pocus Pete.
Then, too, the heat of the big fire often creates a vacuum, or back draft, causing air to rush in toward the leaping flames, and making a wind blow toward them that will carry with it the fire started to offset the menacing one. "Here's a good spot!" exclaimed Pocus Pete at length. "Scatter along here, boys, and set the grass ablaze."
"Fire did you say, Dave?" cried Mr. Carson, as he shook his blanket from him. "Yes, Dad. Over there!" Dave pointed to the glow. It was brighter now. "Yes, it's a fire sure enough," was the ranchman's remark. "And traveling fast, too." "Wind's blowing her this way," remarked Pocus Pete, who had joined the two." Got t' get busy, boys." That last to the cowboys who were now up, ready for business.
"Oh, I thought you meant you were going to warn me to move on," and Dave fancied his friend laughed with an air of relief. "Nothing like that yet," said Mr. Carson, smiling. "But about the fences, concerning which Pocus Pete spoke to me?" "Well, I suggested to Mr. Molick that he'd better put them up," said Mr. Bellmore. "You did!" There was great surprise manifested in the exclamation of Mr.
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