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"I've seen 'em flourish on cottonwood leaves and alkali water yep, and git fat on it, too. Be like a cayuse, my son, and adapt yourself to carcumstances." "Very good advice," said the professor approvingly, as the desert philosopher concluded. As Pete had conjectured, the ponies were far from being as tuckered out as they appeared, despite their sunken flanks and distended nostrils.
Mam Liz's voice, in guarded tones came from the hall, "Yes marm, he's to home, but he's plumb tuckered out. Is yo' got to see him? Yo' ain't wantin' him to go out agin is yo'?" Another voice answered, but the listening doctor could not distinguish the reply. "Oh sho mam. Come in, come in. He's in the library." A moment the nurse stood, hesitating, in the doorway. Dr. Harry sprang to his feet.
Said the barkeeper: "Sit down, sit down, Mrs. Hogan, and don't worry. He asked for a bed three hours ago, tuckered out tramping the trails the way he's always doing, and went upstairs. Ham Sandwich, run up and roust him out; he's in No. 14." The youth was soon downstairs and ready. He asked Mrs. Hogan for particulars. "Bless you, dear, there ain't any; I wish there was.
Say! It was mere child's play for that plucky little band of nine dogs to clean up that rabbit. They never had a minute's fear of it and the rabbit didn't have the least chance of winning the fight, not at any stage. Yes, sir! any time you see nine beagles setting on a tuckered rabbit I don't care how wild he is you'll know how to put your money down.
I've made a good fire in the sittin'-room, and we'll all be the better for supper, I reckon. Auctions is wearin' things, and always will be to the end of time. Your Pa looks clean tuckered out." "Are all the people gone?" asked Eyebright. "Yes, they have, and good riddance to them. It made me madder than hops to hear 'em a-boastin' of the bargains they'd got. Mrs.
Pomper's head had tuckered her out, so I and my pardner sot off alone. All the way there my mind wuz real riz up thinkin' I wuz goin' to see sunthin' very grand lookin' and scriptural, and I said over and over to myself a number of times with deep respect and or, "Tabernacle! Tabernacle!"
Her experienced eyes at once saw that he was sick. She halted her horse. "What is the matter with your brother?" she said to Abner. "I reckon he's tuckered out," said Abner, tacitly admitting the relationship. "We've been travelin' for several days. He ain't so tough as I am." "He looks as if he were going to be sick. Have you any friends near here?" "No, ma'am.
You see, Dave was so tuckered out from cold and want of sleep that he had to warm up with a drink or two, and so forgot his business. He only woke a short time ago, and swore like a a trooper at Perdue and his whiskey. I guess he's swearing yet, for as soon as he'd coughed up his story I left to find you."
"Now, my children, you must go before the little folks are tuckered out," said Grandpa, heartily. "Mother and me can't say enough toe thank you for the presents you have fetched us, the dutiful wishes you have give us, the pride and comfort you have allers ben toe us.
An' he done it! I stayed with 'm, but let me tell you I was plumb tuckered by the time the bear tree'd. "They ain't no stoppin' that man. He ain't afraid of nothin'. Last fall, before the freeze-up, him an' me was headin' for camp about twilight. I was clean shot out ptarmigan an' he had one cartridge left. An' the dawgs tree'd a she grizzly. Small one.
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