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Then there was a smile here, a chuckle there, an incredulous laugh, and Hence Sturgill, "bully of the Pocket," rose from the wagon-tongue, closed his knife, came slowly forward, and cackled his scorn straight up into the teeth of Captain Mayhall Wells. The captain looked down and began to shed his coat. "I take it, Hence Sturgill, that you air laughin' at me?"
"I'll take it," Uncle Esmond said, promptly, and the vicious-looking beast was brought to where Aunty Boone stood beside the wagon-tongue. It was a clear case of hate at first sight, for the mule began to plunge and squeal the instant it saw her.
For Felipe, acting for once in the capacity of work-horse, was straining along at the end of a huge wagon-tongue affixed to a crude and mastodonic axle which in turn supported two monolithic cart-wheels.
But the animals, having gone as far as they could without breaking their chains or the wagon-tongue, which fortunately held, stood sullenly by the side of the wreck they had made, panting with their exertions. "Here is a mess!" said his father; but, without more words, he unhitched the oxen and drove them up the bank.
"Make yourself to home, gents," he said, hospitably, indicating the wagon-tongue and a cracker-box for seats, respectively. "Anything in particular I can do for you?" He looked at Mr. Stott guilelessly. "You can answer me a few questions." Mr. Stott fixed a sternly accusing eye upon him. "Hicks, was, or was not, that trout you gave my wife, wormy?" Mr.
"Ho!" called Isom uncivilly, hailing the stranger as he pulled up his team, the end of his wagon-tongue threatening the hood of the buggy; "what do you want here?" The stranger put his head out a bit farther and twisted his neck to look behind.
The proposal, which our men had accepted, was that we would put ourselves under the flag of truce and be protected from the Indians. "We had to do it," I heard father tell mother. He was sitting, droop-shouldered and dejected, on a wagon-tongue. "But what if they intend treachery?" mother asked. He shrugged his shoulders. "We've got to take the chance that they don't," he said.
How soon would the Place players find it out? With his throat swelling and his mouth dry and his whole body in a ferment Ken pitched to Martin. The short-stop hit to Weir, who made a superb stop and throw. Two out! From all about Ken on the diamond came the low encouraging calls of his comrades. Horton, a burly left-hander, stepped forward, swinging a wagon-tongue.
Oscar and Sandy were left in the camp to wash the dishes and "clean up," a duty which both of them despised with a hearty hatred. "If there's anything I just fairly abominate, it's washing dishes," said Sandy, seating himself on the wagon-tongue and discontentedly eyeing a huge tin pan filled with tin plates and cups, steaming in the hot water that Oscar had poured over them from the camp-kettle.
"Set down, set down." He waved me to the wagon-tongue, and I thankfully seated myself. All of a sudden I seemed utterly gone; possibly through lack of food. My sigh must have been remarked. "Breakfasted, stranger?" he queried passively. "Not yet, sir. I was anxious to reach the train." "Pshaw! I was about to ask you that," Mr. Jenks put in. "Come along and I'll throw together a mess for you."
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