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Updated: June 7, 2025
All of the Rocky Mountains were in his back garden, and his front yard was Bowman Lake. We had had fair weather so far. But now rain set in. Hail came first; then a steady rain. The tents were cold. We got out our slickers and stood out around the beach fire in the driving storm, and ate our breakfast of hot cakes, fried ham, potatoes and onions cooked together, and hot coffee.
He's a pretty good mare." The Head was wandering around with lists in his hand. His conversation ran something like this: "Pocket-flashes, chocolate, jam, medicine-case, reels, landing-nets, cigarettes, tooth-powder, slickers, matches." He was always accumulating matches. One moment, a box of matches would be in plain sight and the next it had disappeared.
The accoutrements were stacked inside the gate like haycocks, with slickers thrown over them; the carbines were thrown on the gallery, and from every nail, peg, or hook on the wall belts and six-shooters hung in groups. These rangers were just ordinary looking men, and might have been mistaken for an outfit of cow hands.
He resembled a sucker or mullet, had a small mouth, dark color, and was rather a sluggish-looking fish. We rode back through a thunderstorm, and our yellow slickers afforded much comfort. Next morning was bright, clear, cold. I saw the moon go down over a mountain rim rose-flushed with the sunrise. R.C. and I, with Teague, started for the top of the big mountain on the west.
"Stay with it!" he gasped; and he and his companions braced themselves against the crushing weight. The veins rose on his forehead. His back was arched and his wet slickers split, but it was plain to Charnock that the men could not hold up the timber, which would injure them if it fell.
And, on the subject of burlesque, they also said Baird was having him do some Edgar Wayne stuff in a new one." "Fine!" The Governor beamed. "Can't you see him as the honest, likable country boy? I bet he'll be good to his old mother in this one, too, and get the best of the city slickers in the end. For heaven's sake don't let me miss it!
A Chinaman, dressed in very clean blue clothes, was putting a meal on the table. Festing hung up his wet slickers and sat down with a vague sense of satisfaction. It was plain that he must go without many comforts he had enjoyed at the farm, but he felt strangely at home. Kerr took supper with him, and afterwards threw some papers on the table and lighted his pipe.
Upon leaving the rendezvous, Glenister and his two friends slunk through the night, avoiding the life and lights of the town, while the wind surged out of the voids to seaward, driving its wet burden through their flapping slickers, pelting their faces as though enraged at its failure to wash away the purposes written there.
One must work or go, and when a cascade of gravel poured off the cars as the plow moved along he pulled himself together. It began to rain soon afterwards and he had left his slickers at the bunk-house, but he stuck to his work, while the sweat the effort caused him ran down his face, until the whistle blew. Then he went limply up the hill to Festing's shack.
Leslie beheld a figure slightly taller than herself, clothed in yellow "slickers" and long rubber boots, a "sou'wester" pulled closely over plump, rosy cheeks and big, inquiring blue eyes. For a moment she could not for the life of her tell whether the figure was man or woman, boy or girl.
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