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Updated: May 5, 2025
He stayed where he was, with aching back, cracking muscles, sweat-grimed brow, and worked, his breath coming in quick, sharp gasps as he frantically helped man, woman, child, one after another, like sheep huddling over a flood. Courtland was there.
They had been doing some tall riding, and their livestock was simply unfit to go farther. The four saddle-horses looked as if they had been dragged through a small-sized knothole; their gauntness, and the dispirited droop of their heads, spelled complete fatigue to any man who knew the symptoms of hard riding. By comparison, my sweat-grimed dun was fresh as a morning breeze.
For more than two hours we wormed our way down the face of the mountain, crawling like moles at the base of the overhanging thickets of poison oak, wild lilac, chamise, sage, manzanita, hazel and buckthorn. At last we reached the depth of the canyon and, finding a little water, we bathed our sweat-grimed faces and cooled off.
While it was evident, of course, from scattered comments that box-makers are constantly marrying, it was likewise apparent that they have not sufficient imagination to invest their hard-working, sweat-grimed sweethearts with any halo of romance. Promptly at half-past twelve the awakening machinery called us back to the workaday world.
He pulled the saddle off Glory, also, travelworn and sweat-grimed, and gave him an affectionate slap of dismissal. "I'd chance money you wasn't thinking of me," he said, pointedly. "How is the old ranch, anyhow ? Splinter up, yet?" "You must think I'm a feeble excuse for a doctor," retorted she. "Of course he's up.
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