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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Maybe it's the Sol Blugg crowd," said Dave. "Yes, and maybe Merwell and Haskers are with them," added Phil. The wind had begun to blow strongly and the sun went down in a heavy mass of angry-looking clouds. "Up against a storm, I reckon," said Tom Dillon, after a careful survey of the sky. "Yes, an' when she comes like as not she'll be a rip-snorter," returned Abe Blower.
"My, but this storm is near! Usually, I don't mind 'em a bit, but, I declare, this is a regular rip-snorter! Edith, bring me " But Mrs.
If it's Baker's outfit, especially, we'll be welcome as flowers in May. You said they'd likely camp at that spring Ten Mile, isn't it? What d'ye think? Shall we go down and take a chance? I sure don't like the look of things up here. It's going to be a rip-snorter of a night, once it cuts loose." "I'm ready to go against nearly anything, right now," MacRae frankly owned.
His friend's eyes crinkled to a smile. "Sure enough. They figure he's the tail end of our party. Well, I'll bet Thomas gives 'em a good run for their money. He's right careless sometimes, but he's no foolhardy idiot and he don't aim to argue with birds like these even though he's a rip-snorter when he gets goin' good and won't stand any devilin'."
'T is betther feed three hungry men than wan "no occasion." His appetite it grew on him wit' every mouthful. There was a boundless emptiness to him. He lay there on the bench and slep' the rest of the evening, and I left him there wit' a big fire at night. And the next day at noon we h'isted him up beside of Joe Stratton. A rip-snorter of a wind was blowin' off the Silver City peaks.
But I used to think I was a regular rip-snorter when I was a youngster up in Eastern Oregon, sneaking away from camp to ride with the cattle and break cayuses and that sort of thing." Thus, and to his great relief, were they launched on a topic of mutual interest.
Hit's a-goin' ter be a rip-snorter ... worst storm er the summer, by the way hit's started." Then, as he dashed the rain from his eyes, and, for the first time caught sight of the visitor, he stopped short in none too pleased surprise, if the black look which went toward Donald from beneath his lowering brows meant anything.
John Wesley Pringle swung far out on the plain to circle round it. "This takes time," he muttered to himself, "but at least I know where not to go. That old rip-snorter sure put a spoke in my wheel! Looks like Foy might see them lights and drift out away from this. But he won't, I guess they said his hidey-hole was right on top, and the shoulder of the hill will hide the fires from him.
"At home they thought them one of the devil's worst devices we had a real devil in our house." "So did we," said Pierson. "But not a rip-snorter like ours they don't have him in cities, or even in towns, any more. I've seen ours lots of times after the lights were out saw him long after I'd convinced myself in daylight that he didn't exist.
His ornery three kings was no good. But he just knew there was another king coming that was his hunch and he got it. And I tell you-all I got a hunch. There's a big strike coming on the Yukon, and it's just about due. I don't mean no ornery Moosehide, Birch-Creek kind of a strike. I mean a real rip-snorter hair-raiser. I tell you-all she's in the air and hell-bent for election.
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