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Then there ensued a raging battle in which were involved five dogs, a long darky and a ring-tailed streak of coon lightning, which whirled and bit and scratched itself free and plunged into the darkness before the astonished hunters could get more than a glimpse of the mêlée. "Coon, coon!" yelled the negroes, and scattered into the woods at the heels of the discountenanced dogs. Mr.
Troutt was standing in the sunny doorway of his stable when the young fellow dashed up to him. "Hullo, Uncle Troutt! Harness the fastest nag into your swellest outfit instanter." "Aha! Goin' t' take y'r girl out, hey?" "Yes; and I want 'o do it in style." "I guess ol' Dan's the idee, if you can drive him; he's a ring-tailed snorter." "Fast?" "Nope; but safe.
His horse had found it first, shying and sniffing and then trying to bolt; Sandy was nothing if not circumstantial. 'We've got some work to do to-night, Sandy. cut in Howard shortly. 'If you've got anything to say, go to it. 'Haw! gurgled Bandy O'Neil, recently from a California outfit, a man with a large sense of mirth. 'He's got his prize ring-tailed dandy to spring, Al.
Kennedy, "and didn't know that there are no such animals north of the equator, I should say it was a mad dromedary mounted by a ring-tailed roarer." "It can't be surely not possible!" exclaimed Mr. Grant. "It's not Charley on the new horse!" Mr. Grant said this with an air of vexation that annoyed his friend a little.
An' thar's Paul, too, lookin' fur all the world like a scholar, crammed full o' book l'arnin', 'stead o' the ring-tailed forest runner, half hoss, half alligator, that he is, though he's got the book l'arnin' an' is one o' the greatest scholars the world ever seed!
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