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On the other side of the room, too, was a little tow-headed child sitting in a cradle, which, small as he was, he had long ago outgrown as a bed. It was only a pine box placed upon rude rockers, and he used it for a rocking-chair.
Turning off from the river and entering upon a piece of level ground, they came to the post-office, an old log house with gable end toward the road. In an inclosure a number of tow-headed boys were trying to ride a calf. In the road a child, not more than able to toddle, was throwing stones at a blowing old goose.
We were fearfully waiting to see him kill some one or be killed. No one was killed. The officers hurriedly took down their sabers and made a bee-line for the door of which I have spoken. Max returned the revolver to his hip-pocket and gave vent to an Homeric laugh. "You tow-headed Dutchman!" I cried, when I found voice for my words, "what have you done?" "Done?
Rinaldo Roberts, trainer and driver of horses, was sitting upon the top rail of the fence that divided the land of old man Bobo from the property of the Race Track Association. Mandy, freckled, long-legged, and tow-headed, balanced herself easily upon one ill-shod foot and rubbed herself softly with the other. The action to those who knew her ways denoted mental perplexity and embarrassment.
"And if we do hit driftwood, I'll have you in the swim quicker than that." Chill II tore her way through the darkness, steered by the tow-headed youth who knew every foot of the river and who guided his course by the loom of the banks in the dim starlight. A smart breeze, kicking up spiteful wavelets on the wider reaches, splashed them with sheeted water as well as fine-flung spray.
At the beginning of the next week there occurred an event which changed materially the ordinary routine of life in the cabin. Heretofore the two sojourners among the mountain fastnesses had walked and climbed under the escort of a small tow-headed Harney.
Two little tow-headed boys, put out of the way on the bed, stared stolidly at us as they munched raw parsnips, and a baby cradled in a basket suspended by a rope from the ceiling was kept swinging by a touch from the mother as she went to and fro.
First I addressed a little girl, tow-headed and barelegged, in a single cotton garment. "I am looking for the Captain Adams wagon train. Do you know where it is?" She only pointed, finger of other hand in her mouth; but as she indicated this same camp I pressed on. Mr. Jenks himself came out to meet me. "Hooray! Here you are. I knew you'd do it. That's the ticket. Broke loose, have you?"
"Bud, you tow-headed infant, how the dickens and tomhill did you manage to break into good society out here?" I cried, as we clinched in each other's arms, for Bud's appearance was food to my homesick hunger. "When you git through, I'm nixt into the barber's chair." I had not noticed O'mie leaning against a post beside the way, until that Irish brogue announced him.
"Why, young lady, what right had you to change from a tow-headed schoolgirl into such a Zenobia, please face the other way and don't listen, while I try to tell this radiant young person how utterly charming she has become. No, I can't begin to do the subject justice. Twenty or thirty years ago I might have had some success. Ah, me!
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