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You sends us out to meet danger, an' you won't come yourself." "Don't you know, Rouser, that I always do go whenever I can? But I'm caged now; faix I don't sleep in a barn, and can't budge as I used to do." "An' who's tyin' you to your place, thin?" "Rouser," replied Bartle, "I wish I had a thousand like you, not but I have fine fellows.
Keep 'em busy and chase 'em clean out of their hats and back to camp." The destruction of the blockhouse and the trestle could be left to the army behind; the scouts moved on again. "The boys are havin' themselves a time." Kirby returned to his post with the advance. "Tyin' bowknots in rails gits easier all the time.
I had no proof of your guilt, although I suspected you for a long time; but it was the pistol which Mother Jael picked up that put me on the right track. 'Ah, wos it now? said Mosk, with regret. 'Th' 'oss knocked that out of m' 'and when I wos tyin' him up, and I 'adn't no time to look for it in the mud an' dark. Y' wouldn't hev caught me, I s'pose, if it hadn't bin for that bloomin' pistol?
"It's of no use your tyin' up the mouth o' the bag now. The cat's got out an' can't be got in again by no manner o' means. Just make a clean breast of it, an' tell it all out like a man, there's a good feller!
We'd sat there maybe an hour, when I happened to think of a trollin' line and some fishhooks I had in my pocket, and it came across me that possibly I might fish up my powder horn. So tyin' half a dozen hooks to the end of my line, I laid down on the log to angle for my powder-horn.
"Well, chickabiddies, we ain't treated you harsh, I hope? Now I don't care about tyin' youse up, in case we can help it, so jest be good girls, and I'll let youse run around loose for a while." But Magnus struck in with an oath. "Loose? You're turnin' soft, I say. The future Mrs. M. there which I mean to make her if she behaves right she's a handful, she is.
"Yuh been here a month, and you ain't said a damn word about where you come from or anything further back than throwin' and tyin' that critter. You said cow-country, and that has had to do some folks that might be curious. Well, she's a tearin' big place cow-country.
"I don't want the bird whipped when he ain't got a chance. "'This hoss backs up if you use the bat on him, I says to the jock, as he's tyin' his reins. "'He backs up anyway, I guess, he says, as the parade starts. "The bird gets away good, but I'd overdone the lead in his socks. He finished a nasty last thirty len'ths back. "'Roll over, kid! says the jock, when I go up to slip him his fee.
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