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Lie low on the pinto's neck, with your haid on the off side. That's right. Let him out." A mile and a half farther up the road Mac reined in, and made the Indian peace-sign. Two dejected figures came over the hill and resolved themselves into punchers of the Lazy D. Each of them trailed a rifle by his side. "You're a fine pair of ring-tailed snorters, ain't y'u?" jeered the foreman.
Stay here, Fabens, and I'll sly away, and start up the company. Hear that! and that! they're snorters! Slink down into the stump; and if our comin' scares 'em, jump out and keep track a little. Don't be scart. We'll be along in a jiffy, and nab the varmints." Colwell crept away, and exchanged a word with Wilson, and then stole off to rally the company.
"If you want to ketch good fish," said he, sententiously, to Young New York, whose hook persisted in baiting itself with his thumb, "if you want to ketch reel snorters, you must have a heavy line, heavy lead, and gimp tackle. Then take your own time, haul in, hand over hand, and no matter what the heft, you'll be sure to fetch him."
"Thank God!" exclaimed Mr Meldrum, in heartfelt thanksgiving to Him who controls the winds and storms, as he sprang to aid the man at the wheel, seeing that he had a hard task to keep the helm over. "Ya-as, I guess that were a narrow squeak," said the American; "and I kalkerlate I'll make tracks down south fore another of them snorters come!"
But public opinion deciding that "the sort that go messing round where they know they're not wanted are always big and muscular and snorters," the Sanguine Scot was encouraged in his determination to "block her somehow." "I'll block her yet; see if I don't," he said confidently. "After all these years on their own, the boys don't want a woman messing round the place."
Of course, if at any time see reason alter your opinion. Always at your service. No offence, I hope. All right! I'm off. Due to play hockey. Jackson's. Horrid snorters! So long, Vee! Just suggested it. See? Nothing really. Passing thought." "Teddy," said Ann Veronica, "you're a dear!" "Oh, quite!" said Teddy, convulsively, and lifted an imaginary hat and left her. Part 3
Another week has passed, and we are to-day, by observation, sixty miles due south of the Straits of Le Maire, and we are hove-to, in a driving gale, on the port tack. The glass is down to 28.58, and even Mr. Pike acknowledges that it is one of the worst Cape Horn snorters he has ever experienced.
Thus the theory of the whoopers and snorters of the cause, in its esoteric as well as in its public aspect, is unsound.
Then the Sanguine Scot was filled with wrath, the Company with compassion, while the Dandy's consternation found relief in a dismayed "Heavens above!" Had he been present, much might have been said on the "advantages of having a woman about the place." The Wag, however, retained his usual flow of speech and spirits. "Buck up, chaps!" he chuckled encouraging! "They're not all snorters, you know.
Besides which, there are certain fishes which are named Snorters, because they make a snorting noise like hogs . In the year 1538, a civil war broke out in Peru, between Pizarro and Almagro; in the course of which, Almagro was taken prisoner and beheaded.
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