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Instead, she found him playing camp-out Indian, as he called it, with her best bed by way of wickiup, and the wickiup was provisioned lavishly and stickily from the resources of the closet where she kept her jams. Prudence and frugality demanded that Mrs. Brenton should remove her best clothes, before she essayed to administer justice at short range.
I could hear the clanking of spurs and the sound of the wet, tired horses shaking themselves and rattling the saddles on every side. "Who's in the wickiup?" I heard the sheriff ask. "Some women and kids, Mrs. Louderer and a friend." In an incredibly short time Herman had a fire coaxed into a blaze and Mat Watson and the sheriff went from bed to bed with a lantern.
But I didn't intend to be poor, I protested to my troubled soul, as I went at that Harris Ranch wickiup, tooth and nail, while Iroquois Annie kept an eye on Dinkie and the Twins. These same Twins, I can more than ever see, are going to be somewhat of a brake on the wheels of industry. I have even been feeding on "slops," of late, to the end that Poppsy and Pee-Wee may thrive.
Late in the afternoon the Pittsburg train drew up at the Wickiup. Gertrude and her sister left their car together to walk in the sunshine that flooded the platform, for the sun was still a little above the mountains. In front of the eating-house a fawn-colored collie racing across the lawn attracted Gertrude, and with her sister she started up the walk to make friends with him.
The face in the Lalla Rookh had put an end to thoughts of sleep, and he walked up to his office in the Wickiup to work until morning on his report. He lighted a lamp, opened his desk with a clang that echoed to the last dark corner of the zigzag hall, and, spreading out his papers, resumed the figuring he had begun at Wind River station.
"This machine does not hunt us, and we can make our camps in this land where no Pinda-lick-o-yi can find them " "We are not dobe-gusndhe-he invulnerable. Nor do we know the full range of machines they can use. It does no one well to say 'doxa-da' this is not so when he does not know all that lies in an enemy's wickiup." To Travis' relief he saw agreement mirrored on Buck's face, Tsoay's, Nolan's.
By night every wire was down; the last message in was a private one from Glover, with the ploughs, dated at Nine Mile. Solomon brought the telegram up to Gertrude with the intimation that, confidentially, Mr. Blood's assistant, in charge of the Wickiup, would be glad to hear any news it might contain about the blockade, as communication was now cut entirely off.
Hughie repeated the message to get it letter-perfect; to handle stuff at the Wickiup signed "J. S. B." was like handling diamonds on a jeweller's tongs or arteries on a surgeon's hook; and, in truth, Bucks's words were the arteries and pulse-beat of the mountain division.
"Last Friday when I took the bacon and oatmeal over to Soapy and Francois and Whinstane Sandy," I told him. "And what did you think of that shack?" "It impressed me as being sadly in need of soap and water," I calmly admitted. "It's like any other shack where two or three men have been batching no better and no worse than the wickiup I came to here on my honeymoon."
By all counts she would have been about sixty years old when it came her turn to sit in the dust on the sunny side of the wickiup, with little strength left for anything but looking. And in time she paid the toll of the smoky huts and became blind. This is a thing so long expected by the Paiutes that when it comes they find it neither bitter nor sweet, but tolerable because common.
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