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"No, sir; not since breakfast." "Send him after me, if he comes in sight. Tell him Miss Ross and party are yonder, and I've ridden on to meet them." The next minute he had gone, taken a horse from a sycee, and in spite of the heat, cantered off to meet the party with the elephant, the air being that clear that I could see him go right up, turn his horse round, and ride gently back by the side.
When Ross tried to think he could only see muddled pictures which had no connection. Then a moving object crossed his very narrow field of vision, passing between him and a thing he knew was a tree trunk. A four-footed creature with a red tongue hanging from its jaws.
Ross looked round for Virginia, but could not find her. She had seen him come in, and was out in the kitchen doing what she could to have his food brought in and properly served. Redfield reassured the perturbed proprietor of "the joint." "No fear of going broke, madam quite the contrary. A few little touches like this, and you'll be obliged to tear down and build bigger.
"That's what we may call a bit o' soft soap," she said, "and I'd advise ye to keep that kind o' thing to yourself, old man! It don't go down with Meg Ross, I can tell ye!" "Are you Meg Ross?" he asked, amused at her manner. "That's me! I'm known all over the countryside for the sharpest tongue as ever wagged in a woman's head. So you'd better look out!" "I'm not afraid of you!" he said smiling.
But before they left the camp, a runner entered it with a summons from Multnomah calling them to the great council of the tribes on Wappatto Island, for which they must start on the morrow. See Bancroft's "Native Races," vol. i., p. 270. See Ross Cox's "Adventures on the Columbia River" for a description of torture among the Columbia tribes. They arrived at the village of Wishram.
Ross urged, but this the dog refused to do. "I am a creature of the open air," he seemed to say. "My duties are of the outer world. I have no wish for a fireside all I need is a master's praise and a bit of bread." Cavanagh brought some food, and, putting it down outside the door, spoke to him, gently: "Good boy! Eat that and go back to your flock. I'll come to see you in the morning."
"You know what I mean by our set," went on the vivacious old "Gainsborough," "the aristocrats whose conversation is limited to the weather and scandal, and who are so frightfully dull! Dull! My dear Ross you know how dull they are!" "Well, upon my word, they are," admitted Courtney. "You are right there. I certainly agree with you." "I'm sure you do! They have no ideas.
Some twigs were broken, and several of the smaller bushes, bent to one side by a heavy body, had not returned to their normal position. "Here is where Paul laid down to rest," said Henry. "An' he wuz so tired he fell asleep an' slep' all night," said Shif'less Sol. "He shorely did," said Tom Ross, "'cause these bushes wuz bent so long they ain't had time to straighten out ag'in."
Baltimore attacked.% Once on the bay, the army was hurried on board the ships and carried to Baltimore, where for a day and a night they shelled Fort McHenry. Failing to take it, and Ross having been killed, Cockburn reëmbarked and sailed away to Halifax.
This whole wood is full of people flushed out of that blasted village! Most of them all I've seen are natives. But they have it firmly planted in their minds now that there are devils after them. If they see you wearing that suit " "I know, and I'd strip if I could," Ross agreed. "But I'll have to get other clothing first; I can't run bare in this cold." "That might be safer," McNeil growled.
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