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One of the return boys, in the bow of the whaleboat, made the peace sign with his palm extended outward and weaponless, and began to chirp in the unknown Su'u dialect. Van Horn held his aim and waited. The dandy lowered his Snider, and breath came more easily to the chests of all who composed the picture. "Me good fella boy," the dandy piped, half bird-like and half elf.
They crossed our bows, and came back to the assistance of Mr. Snider. The two gold makers were transferred to the constable's boat, where they seemed to be treated with great awe and respect. A light rain was falling now, and the wind had moderated.
The last time I saw A. P. Fillmore, I said to him: 'Brother Fillmore, I said, 'how do you account for it? How did you do it? How did you GET it? And he said: 'Caleb, he said, 'I'll tell you. It was by following the Golden Rule. That's all there is to it, James, just by being GOOD. Isn't that simple, James? Oh! why can't we all do that!" I looked at Mr. Snider in astonishment.
Saunders kindly lent us a Snider rifle for protection, as the blacks were bad through the ranges, between his station and Mytton's. We camped the first night at the Broken River, a weird looking place. This was about May, 1868, and the nights being very cold we would place one blanket under and have the other over us, with our heads on the saddle, and the rifle between us.
With the possible exception of Snider, the little party appeared in the best of spirits, laughing and joking, or interestedly discussing the possibilities which the future held for us: what we should find upon the continent, and whether the inhabitants would be civilized or barbarian peoples.
Delcarte and Taylor immediately assured me that they had not for an instant assumed anything different, and that they were as ready to follow and obey me here as they would be upon the other side of thirty. Snider said nothing, but he wore a sullen scowl.
This time the Snider would be fired if ever Shere Ali came within range of its bullet. But it was unlikely that he would get so far, unless he went quickly and secretly at an appointed time. "I had a poor foolish thought," said Ahmed Ismail, "not worthy a moment's consideration by my Prince." Shere Ali broke in impatiently upon his words. "Speak it."
As the owner of the Half-Moon galloped up to the ranch house of the Three Stars his horse literally dripping water, Jim Snider and his cowboys ran up from all directions to learn the cause of such evident hard riding. To the accompaniment of various exclamations of anger and surprise Mr. Wilder hurriedly told his neighbors of the raid.
He would sit half the night over his political editorials, smiling grimly to himself, and when he threw himself back in his chair and laughed like a boy the knife was turned in someone! One day Mr. James Ducker, lately retired farmer, sometimes insurance agent, read in the Winnipeg Telegram that his friend the Honourable Thomas Snider had chaperoned an Elk party to St. Paul. Mr.
The next morning, April 17th, we started sharp at 7 A.M. Two prisoners had been brought in the night before, one of whom had a Snider and twenty rounds of ammunition, the other a matchlock. They confessed that they had fought us at Nisa Gol, and stated they were now going home.
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