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Updated: June 7, 2025
The morning broke dark and lowering. We hustled to get started before a storm broke. It began to rain as we mounted our horses, and soon we were in the midst of a cold rain. It blew hard. We put on our slickers. After a short ride down through the forest we entered Buffalo Park. This was a large park, and we lost time trying to find a forester's trail leading out of it.
Mist rolled among the pines and it was raining hard when Festing led his team down the hill. He wore big rubber boots and slickers, and a heavy log trailed behind the horses through the mud. Some distance above the river the slope was gradual, and it was necessary to haul the logs to the skidway he had built.
I knew they couldn't cross the river nowhere but at the bridge or here." The men had gathered about the fire and were gulping hot coffee and cold beef and bread. The rain ran off their slickers in little rivulets. I was sorry the fire was not better, because some of the men had on only ordinary coats, and the drizzling rain seemed determined that the fire should not blaze high.
Tents, iron huts, and rude log shacks slipped past; men in muddy slickers drew back against the bank, and then the train stopped. Festing got down into the water that flowed among the ties, and Kerr came forward in dripping slickers. "If you want help to get the teams out, I'll send some of the boys," he said. "If not, you had better come along and I'll show you your shack.
What else can be said of a town with derricks built through its front porches and even the graveyard leased to a drilling company? "The sump holes are filling," went on Sanders. "Soon the oil will the running to waste on the prairie. We need men, teams, tools, wagons, hundreds of slickers, tents, beds, grub.
As he spoke there came a low growl of thunder and the sky was illumined with a livid glare. "Here she comes!" yelled Merritt; "better get out those slickers or we'll be soaked." Tubby opened a locker and produced the yellow waterproof coats. The boys had hardly thrust their arms into them before the big sea struck them.
"Well, on the whole, lieutenant, your outfit is in very good shape.... At ease, men!" The lieutenant and the major stood at the door a moment raising the collars of their coats; then they dove out into the rain. A few minutes later the sergeant came in. "All right, get your slickers on and line up." They stood lined up in the rain for a long while. It was a leaden afternoon.
Craft, as the name implies, knows her business and enjoys the reputation of being a "fine talker." Louis gamely enough responded, and soon the expedition, in rain-and-wet-proof armor of slickers and hip rubber boots, set out to gain that night Johnson's Camp, a couple of vacant cabins on the Neukluk, free to all transients.
The slickers of the crew were dripping and shiny, and we, too, soon looked like a flock of wet, disgruntled hens. To add to my discomfiture the professor brought up a newspaper and began consulting the shipping news, blandly telling us that if we captured the princess within forty-eight hours he could have her in Azuria in twenty days.
He went off to the stable with long, swinging strides that matched all nature for gladness, singing cheerily: "So polish up your saddles, oil your slickers and your guns, For we're hound for Lonesome Prairie when the green grass comes." Thurston did not go on the horse roundup.
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