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"Reckon that's right," Bert answered, turning back and carrying his riding gear into the shelter where the other cowboys already had taken theirs. "Wonder if them women come?" Chuck Slithers queried as they moved toward the gate. "More than likely Bet Skinny and Old Heck have had a hell of a time making love to 'em," Charley Saunders remarked.
With no warning save a faint rustle in the undergrowth a lean and tawny form slithers on padded feet across the open and the man behind the rifle has his chance. I have found, however, that even in tiger lands, tigers are by no means as plentiful as one's imagination paints them at home. It is easy to be a big-game hunter on the hearth-rug.
"The darned old cuss has had a wife sometime and run off from her and deserted her and she's pursuing him and trailing him down to earth!" Chuck Slithers, doubting Thomas of the outfit and student of Sherlock Holmes, cunningly suggested. "I always imagined he was a varmint with a past a' ex-heart breaker of innocent women or a train-robber or "
He did not once turn to look back, else might he have seen a speck on the horizon, moving at the incredible speed with which a camel can race as it slithers across the sands. "In Rama was there a voice heard . . . Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were not." "Hugh!"
Marmaduke put only one or two kernels of corn from his first pocket, in the plates for the White Wyandottes, to hold them there until the rest of the guests could come. He wanted to get them all together and make a speech to them, the way Deacon Slithers did when they gave a purse of gold to the minister. He was going to present himself with something at that speech.
He gave Sooltan his head. There is no danger in it, goodness knows, when you bestride a diminutive donkey whose dainty little feet know every pebble on the route, but there is danger when an animal like Sooltan takes the Avenue of Sphinxes at a mad rush and slips and slithers and slides, under the impetus of his own weight, pace and terror, the rest of the way, even if he is as sure-footed as a goat.
'I never knew, said Sam, fixing his eyes in a ruminative manner upon the blushing barber, 'I never knew but vun o' your trade, but HE wos worth a dozen, and wos indeed dewoted to his callin'! 'Was he in the easy shaving way, sir, inquired Mr. Slithers; 'or in the cutting and curling line? 'Both, replied Sam; 'easy shavin' was his natur', and cuttin' and curlin' was his pride and glory.
"Aw, you blamed idiot, they'd come anyhow then, just to attend the funeral " "I got an idea," Chuck Slithers exclaimed; it's a telegram too. Send them one C.O.D. in care of the train that will get to Eagle Butte the twenty-first and tell them we've all got the smallpox and we're sorry but everybody's dangerously sick and to please answer!"
Excuse my interest in you; a full kittle will bile over. I've lots and slithers of United States information that ain't to be found in your green emerald Erin, no more than snakes is." Blennerhassett was in doubt whether to consider himself insulted or befriended. He had misgivings concerning Burr and the colony. Common sense told him that Byle might be more than half right.
Certainly it looks at present as if the Fleet would not be able to carry on at this rate, and, if so, the soldiers will have to do the trick.": "Later. "The Irresistible, the Ocean and the Bouvet are gone! The Bouvet, they say, just slithered down like a saucer slithers down in a bath. The Inflexible and the Gaulois are badly mauled." 19th March, 1915. H.M.S. "Franconia."
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