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Besides, he did not have to be wound up, and was not liable to get out of order." "I some-times wish," said Tiktok, "that I was stuffed with straw, as you are. It is hard to be made of cop-per." "I have no reason to complain of my lot," replied the Scarecrow. "A little fresh straw, now and then, makes me as good as new.
Some-times the worker whistled softly. Sometimes he let the gun fall against his knee, and stared dreamily through the window at the flight of the ragged clouds. Again, he would shake his head, as if there were something which he failed to understand. Half an hour passed, when again some one knocked on the door. "Come in!" Under his breath he added: "The gendarmes, likely."
Mar-quette did not know that any white man had ever seen any part of the Mis-sis-sip-pi. The two little canoes now turned their bows down the river. Some-times they saw great herds of buf-fa-loes. Some of these came to the bank of the river to look at the men in the canoes. They had long, shaggy manes, which hung down over their eyes. For two weeks the trav-el-ers paddled down the river.
Johnny poured the last of the gas and caused another clinking sound in the can. The Mexican's eyes were as wide open now as they would ever be, and he even called a faint smile to his countenance. "Some-times Sawb," he recollected, and reached for the can. "Sawb What y'mean, Sawb? That's no name for a man. You mean Schwab?" "Si, senor Sawb."
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