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At that he did enough to keep tongues wagging. Cattlemen loved to tell those familiar exploits of the "two sheriffs," or that "thousand-mile pursuit of Canby," with its half-tragic, half-humorous conclusion, or the "Sacking of Two Rivers," or the "three-cornered battle" against Rodriguez and Blond.
While Pete was galloping off to Lexington at breakneck speed, the Colonel was wondering what the answer would be. "I'll just say good-bye to her," he muttered, moodily, "and then I'll never see her again. I suppose I belong with the horses, anyhow, and that old bottle-nosed General has me classed all right!" When Pete returned he handed the Colonel a dainty little three-cornered note.
Get one of them three-cornered hickory rails, and that'll do the thing up brown." "Whar is de best place to s'prise him?" asked Wiles.
Poor little sewster, she had known joyous Muckleys too, but now she was up in the Three-cornered Wood hanging herself, aged nineteen. I know nothing more of her, except that in her maiden days when she left the house her mother always came to the door to look proudly after her.
The boys wore old-fashioned court dresses of white velvet, and their curious three-cornered hats were fringed with silver and surmounted with huge plumes of ostrich feathers, the dazzling whiteness of their costumes, as they moved about in the sunlight, being still more accentuated by their swarthy faces and long black hair.
I puffed up my cheeks and rounded off my figure in anticipation of the portly appearance I was to present, and repeated to myself those delightful observations "This is Monsieur Caspar Hâas; he is a very rich man! He is the first herr in the country! Get on, Blitz!" And the nag trotted forward. I was anxious to try on my uncle's three-cornered hat and scarlet waistcoat.
Beside it was a single post sprouting hickory prongs, on which were hung as many cleanly scoured milk- pails glittering in the sun. On this post Hank had nailed a three-cornered piece of looking-glass Hank had a sweetheart in the village below a necessity and useful luxury, he told Oliver afterward, "in slickin' yerself up fer meals."
This," he added, handing the three-cornered note to the old gentleman, "is her reply." Mr Hazlit took the note, and, with a troubled countenance, read:
He therefore, as soon as the boat shoved off from the side of the felucca, ordered the sails to be clewed up, to allow her more easily to approach. As she pulled towards us, we were able to examine the people in her. He who sat in the stern-sheets was a little old man, with a little three-cornered hat on his head, and a blue long-skirted coat and waistcoat, richly laced.
It isn't fair," Rose said. "All right. I won't." "On your honour?" "On my honour." A three-cornered note on her dressing-table at bed-time: Sept. 20th, 1878. Maison Dieu Lodge. "My dear Mary: Our talk was not satisfactory.
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