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Updated: June 3, 2025
Nellie was huddled against her mother, who sat, idle, with little Benny in her arms. The tragic yearning her whole body expressed, as she held the baby close, arrested the boy's attention, filled him with clamoring uneasiness. His father came to help him unhitch. "What's the matter with Benny?" Wade looked at Martin queerly. "He's dead.
A certain relief came over him as he observed the peaceful cattle grazing adjacent to the corrals, the smoke rising from the kitchen chimney, and the great figure of Rube smoking reflectively in the kitchen doorway. He did not stop to unhitch the horses, just hooking them to the corral fence. Then he lifted the child from the buckboard and bore her to the house.
The players were by now in the sled, which, in its damaged condition, had been let down as nearly level as possible. The blankets were pulled up over the side, and Mr. Macksey was preparing to unhitch one of the horses, and set off for help. Then one of the drivers gave a sudden cry, and came running up to his employer. "Look!" he shouted. "The wind's shifted.
Still, maybe I better ask yer to unhitch yer belt, Jack." A moment Keith seemed to hesitate, plainly puzzled by the situation and endeavoring to see some way of escape; then his lips smiled, and he silently unhooked the belt, handing it over. "Sure, I know you're square, Hicks," he said, coolly. "And now I've unlimbered, kindly inform me what this is all about." "I reckon yer don't know."
As Harold was helping to unhitch the team the girl came around and studied him with care. "Say, what's your name?" "Moses," he instantly replied. "Moses what?" "Oh, let it go at Mose." "Hain't you got no other name?" "I did have but the wind blew it away." "What was it?" "Moses N. Hardluck." "You're terrible cute, ain't you?" "Not so very, or I wouldn't be working for my board."
Guess I'll unhitch," and he toddled out into the gathering dusk to his mules, while the landlord peered uneasily down the darkening trail. As the saddened Joy lit candles in the front room there came the rattle of wheels without, and a buckboard stopped in the bar of light from the door. Bailey's anxiety was replaced by a mask of listless surprise as the voice of Ross Turney called to him.
"If there's going to be any trouble I want to be there," was his vague reflection, as he threw to Jotham the unexpected order to unhitch the team and lead them back to the barn. It was a slow trudge home through the heavy fields, and when the two men entered the kitchen Mattie was lifting the coffee from the stove and Zeena was already at the table. Her husband stopped short at sight of her.
When each boy had filled one of these openings all the wood was carried on board, and we would unhitch the Deliverance, and she would proceed to burn up the fuel we had just collected. It took the twenty boys about four hours to cut the wood, and the Deliverance the same amount of time to burn it. It was distinctly a hand-to-mouth existence.
"You're to drive the mules up to McGlynn's and unhitch them and leave them," said he. "I'm to show you the way." "Where's McGlynn?" I asked. "He's getting his mail." We drove to a corral and three well-pitched tents down in the southern edge of town. Here a sluggish stream lost its way in a swamp of green hummocky grass. I turned out the mules in the corral and hung up the harness.
Could we stay all night? We could there was no hesitation and straight in we rode. "Where's your father?" Both girls giggled, and one said, with frank unembarrassment: "Pap's tight!" That did not look promising, but we had to stay just the same. Buck helped me to unhitch the mules, helped me also to catch minnows, and in half an hour we started down the river to try fishing before dark came.
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