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There is a magic in the Northland night, that steals in on one like fevers from malarial marshes. You are clutched and downed before you are aware. Then I looked to the snowshoes, lying prone and crossed where he had flung them. Also I had an eye to my tobacco pouch. Half, at least, of its goodly store had vamosed. That settled it. Fancy had not tricked me after all.
They vamosed, and the old coon, inviting me to take a cigar, helps himself, and reared his head back, while I sorter lays on the floor, and we smoked and talked. "'But have we not been sitting long enough? Take a fresh cigar, and we will walk. That was Purgatory where your quondam friend, Jake Beloo, is.
One morning he reepairs to the calaboose to consult with the felons on whose interests he's ridin' herd. Horror seizes him; he finds the cells as vacant as a echo. ""Where's these clients?" asks Easy Aaron, while his face grows white. ""Vamosed!" says the Mexican who carries the calaboose keys; an' with that he turns in mighty composed, to roll a cigarette.
Oh, Maw! the Stanner crowd has vamosed the ranch, and this yer stranger kalkilates to stay!" A week had passed at Eagle's Court a week of mingled clouds and sunshine by day, of rain over the green plateau and snow on the mountain by night.
But all to onct Curly took to lookin' flaxed, an' the judge here overheard Scrabblegrab askin' Curly what he thort his mother'd say ef she knew he was makin' his money that way? The boy took on wuss an' wuss, an' now he's vamosed. Don't b'lieve me ef yer don't want ter, fellers here's the judge hisself."
Your attacker must have vamosed, else you'd have collected lead on the jump." "That's so," agreed Lennon. "Only I really think I nailed the beggar. Yet you must take no chances. Get under cover while I make sure." "You've already done that standing here ten seconds without drawing a shot. When a mountain lion misses his game first crack, he sometimes is so shamed he clears out.
Peaceful's a ship becalmed. Not a darned Apache in sight." "You are sure?" demanded the young officer. "Better get some more peach-leaf pain-killer on your arm 'n' set straight down to breakfast." "If the Apaches have vamosed, Coronado might join us," suggested Thurstane. "Never!" answered Mrs. Stanley with solemnity. "His ancestor stormed Cibola and ravaged this whole country.
He was learning to give as good as he got. "Heard the news?" asked Big Jack, glancing around at his companions, promising them a bit of sport. "What news?" asked Sam warily. "Your new girl has flew the coop." "What do you mean?" demanded Sam, scowling. "Wafted. Vamosed. Fluffed out. Beat it for the outside." "Who are you talking about?" "Beattie's wife's sister." "Miss Mackall?"
Glass fell like hail; dogs vamosed; chickens flew, squawking; feminine voices shrieked concernedly to youngsters at large. The din was perforated at intervals by the staccato of the Terror's guns, and was drowned periodically by the brazen screech that Quicksand knew so well. The occasions of Calliope's low spirits were legal holidays in Quicksand.
"We heern yur shot, Cap'n," said Lincoln, "an' we guessed yur didn't shoot without somethin' ter shoot for; so I tuk half a dozen files and kim up." "You acted right, sergeant; but where are the " I was looking towards the edge of the tank where I had last seen the girls. They had disappeared. "If yez mane the faymales," answered Chane, "they're vamosed through the threes.
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