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""Which this agitated sport," observes Waco coldly to Shoestring Griffith, who comes loungin' up likewise, "asks whoever does these yere dastard deeds! Does you-all recall the fate, Shoestring, of the last misguided shorthorn who gives way to sech a query? My mem'ry is never ackerate as to trifles, an' I'm confoosed about whether he's shot or hung or simply burned alive."
He sat down in the door and began to loosen a shoestring. "We mout as well go down to Uncle Ziah's," decided Ransie, "and spend the night." He climbed into the cart on one side, and Ariela climbed in on the other. Obeying the flap of his rope, the little red bull slowly came around on a tack, and the cart crawled away in the nimbus arising from its wheels.
She had seen the shoestring creek bottoms between the endless mountains among which she was born and bred, the high-hung, cup-like depressions of their inner fastnesses; she was used to the cool, clear, boulder-checked mountain creeks that fight their way down those steeps like an armed man beating off assailants at every turn; she had been taken a number of times to Bledsoe, the tiny settlement at the foot of Unaka Old Bald, where there were two stores, a blacksmith shop, the post-office and the church.
They stopped for a moment on the Place des Victoire the bride's shoestring was untied she fastened it at the foot of the statue of Louis XIV, her friends waiting as she did so. Finally they reached the Louvre.
Dinner time came and we were all expectancy. The first course was potato soup. Filling but not fascinating. The second course was potato chips, which we nibbled slightly while we looked eagerly at the butler's pantry. The next course was French fried potatoes with some shoestring potatoes on the side, and I began to get nervous.
A resolute grip in the right place with firm fingers will do well enough, until a twisted handkerchief, stout cord, shoestring, suspender, or an improvised tourniquet is ready to take its place. If the flow of blood does not stop, change the pressure until the right spot is found. Sometimes it will do to seize a handful of dry earth and crowd it down into the bleeding wound, with a firm pressure.
"You would not shoot just now at a crow because it was a foul bird, nor at a hawk because it was a noble bird; bring us down yon heron: it flies slowly." But Otto was busy that moment tying his shoestring, and Rudolf, the third best of the archers, shot at the bird and missed it.
Besides, am I not to meet my husband on this Shoestring Cañon where we must first go?" Simultaneously they turned on her. "Your husband!" It was a cry of astonishment from the older people and one of mingled surprise and shock from the boys. Solange smiled and nodded. "Yes," she said. "Monsieur de Launay, whom you rescued from the jail. He is my husband and it is all quite proper."
If you pull a duster, you'll be out and injured, maybe twenty-five thousand, but if it comes wet they'll have to protect those three leases with three offsets. It ain't a bad-looking piece of ground; you'll have about a one-to-three chance of making a well." "How many companies have you gentlemen promoted?" Gray inquired. "Twenty-two. And from a shoestring.
The sheriff of Esmeralda County, State of Nevada, hereby offers a reward of FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS for the capture, dead or alive, and evidence leading to the conviction of Lewis Delaney, alias Louisiana Lou, alias Louisiana, who is wanted for the murder, on October 18, 1900, of Peter Dalbray, commonly known as French Pete, at a point near the entrance of Shoestring Cañon in Township 42 N., Range 5 East.
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