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At the trader's there was not the usual small gathering of loungers, squatted sociably around on cracker boxes and packing cases, and the man with the twang was alone. "Say, there's something wrong with that stuff you sent us," Bill began, and the trader answered with a soft, absent-minded, "So?"
"But I done told them you was my friend. And I thought you'd gone back on me sure." "Not an inch!" cried Bob, heartily. George kicked the logs of the fire together, filled the coffee pot at the creek, hung it over the blaze, and squatted on his heels. Bob tossed him a sack of tobacco which he caught. "Thought you were bound for Mexico," hazarded Bob at length.
Rachel awoke and sat up looking round her wonderingly. Then by the dim light of the lamps she saw Noie seated at her side, and the old dwarf-woman, who was called Mother of the Trees, squatted at a little distance watching them both and remembered. "Thou hast had happy dreams, Lady, and thou art well again, is it not so?" queried Nya.
According to custom, he approached unsmiling, spat carefully in his palm, and shook hands. Then he squatted and waited. "What is it?" we asked after it became evident he really wanted something besides the pleasure of our company. "N'dowa-medicine," said he. "Why do you not go the Government dispensary?" we demanded.
I do not recollect any of them to have had more than two wives. These always accompanied their husbands when they came to our dwelling; and then they generally carried whatever they brought to us, and always squatted down behind their husbands. Whenever we gave them any thing to eat, the men and their wives ate it separate. I never saw the least sign of incontinence amongst them.
A company of men and women traveling acquaintances evidently followed him from the Pullman to bid him good-by and to look at the Indians, who with their wealth of curios spread before them, squatted in a long row beside the track objects of never failing interest to travelers from the East.
In other days Manton's building on Main Street had appeared a pretentious one to Lane's untraveled eyes. It was an old three-story red-brick-front edifice, squatted between higher and more modern structures. When he climbed the dirty dark stairway up to the second floor a throng of memories returned with the sensations of creaky steps, musty smell, and dim light.
So warned, he was in a manner armed; he could prepare to fight back. He squatted by the wreckage as he thought that through, turning over broken pieces. And, Shann realized, he must present at the moment a satisfactory picture of despondency to any spy. A spy, that was it!
Before one of the houses an old woman was taking care of a dozen black infants, little naked, glossy, black guinea pigs, with party coloured beads tied round their loins, each squatted like a little Indian pagod in the middle of a large wooden bowl, to keep it off the damp ground.
It seemed that all the skin went off my hips, as I shot inside with a bang. And none too soon. We lay still. He would have handed me a merciless drubbing if he had caught me, with my nether end hanging helplessly on the outside. We squatted on the floor of the refrigerator box. When we reached Yuma my pal rose to his feet. "Ain't yer goin' ta throw yer feet fer a hand-out?" he asked me.
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