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We got to the cow camp in time for dinner, and our cowboy introduced Pa to the cowboys around the chuck wagon, and told them Pa was an old cowboy who had traveled the Texas trail years ago, and was one of the best horsemen in the business, a manager of a show that was adding a wild west department and wanted to hire 40 or more of the best ropers and riders, at large salaries, to join the show, and that Pa considered himself the legitimate successor of Buffalo Bill, and money was no object.
Both of them were expert ropers. In five minutes the American was swallowed in the darkness. He was astride the bare back of the buckskin and was leading the other ponies. As soon as he knew he was safely out of sight and hearing, he deflected toward the corral. His friends were waiting for him anxiously. Steve dropped lightly to the ground. "Hold the horses a minute, Frank," he said.
The line-back calf kept close to his mother's side, and as long as possible avoided the ropers. But in an unguarded moment the noose of a rope encircled one of his hind feet, and he was thrown upon his side, and in this position the mounted man dragged him up to the fire.
On Saturday next we shall, I hope, rise before seven, as I am engaged to dine on that day with pretty, witty Mrs. . I fell in with her at Lady Grey's great crush, and found her very agreeable. Her husband is nothing in society. Ropers has some very good stories about their domestic happiness, stories confirming a theory of mine which, as I remember, made you very angry.
At once Means was after her, galloping hard, for without the dogs there was danger of our losing sight of her. But the lioness did not run far. Her next and last position was in the bed of a small gully about three feet deep in the bottom of the donga and thickly grown with grasses. Here the ropers held a brief consultation and planned a final attempt.
The good people have no suspicion of how much a single line, a single expression, may cost its author. The wits used to say that Ropers, the poet once before referred to, old Samuel Ropers, author of the Pleasures of Memory and giver of famous breakfasts, was accustomed to have straw laid before the house whenever he had just given birth to a couplet.
"Her Majesty finds herself so touched in honour upon this point, that if it be not conceded as I doubt not it will be, seeing the singular forwardness of your Highness" said the artful Doctor with a smile, "we are no less than commanded to return to her Majesty's presence." "I sent Richardot to you yesterday," said Alexander; "did he not content you?" "Your Highness, no," replied Ropers.
For the sea-kings of the sixteenth century the Drakes, Hawkinses, Frobishers, Raleighs, Cavendishes the De Moors, Heemskerks, Barendts all sprung of the old pirate-lineage, whether called Englanders or Hollanders, and instinct with the same hereditary love of adventure, were about to wrestle with ancient tyrannies, to explore the most inaccessible regions, and to establish new commonwealths in worlds undreamed of by their ancestors to accomplish, in short, more wondrous feats than had been attempted by the Knuts, and Rollos, Rurics, Ropers, and Tancreds, of an earlier age.
How many Mrs Ropers there are who from year to year sink down and fall away, and no one knows whither they betake themselves!
The epitaph and poetry are in Latin: we give the translation: Others tell that his remains were interred in the Tower, and some record that the head was sought and preserved by that same daughter Margaret, who caused it to be buried in the family vault of the Ropers in St.
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