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Some o' the cap'ns Mr Saint Leger and Cap'n Drake among 'em, I believe was for attackin' the convoy and takin' the whole o' the Plate fleet; and, as things turned out, 'twould ha' been better if we'd done it, for, disabled though our ships were, we could ha' fought at our anchors and kept the convoy from enterin' the port.
Using their spurs to dig with, the cowpunchers deepened the hollow and packed the loose dirt around the rim in order to heighten the rampart. From a distance came the sound of heavy, rapid firing, of far, faint yells. "The boys are attackin' the gulch," Dud guessed. "Sounds like they might be makin' a clean-up too." It was three o'clock by Bob's big silver watch.
"Who do you-all reckon did the attackin'?" he stammered. "I don't know. You ought to know more about it than I do. You folks up here in the hills are altogether too sudden too handy with your guns. One of these days you will meet some one who is more so." "Ah reckons that young woman's kinder sudden, too," answered Jed, with a sheepish grin at Miss Briggs.
He called them the wolves of the sea, and said they were the most daring hunters among all things that swim." "Sea-tigers, some calls 'em," the other agreed, "an' they're fiercer than any wolves I've ever heard about, but I never saw any of 'em attackin' a boat. I have seen as many as twenty tearin' savagely at a whale that was lyin' alongside a ship an' was bein' cut up by the crew.
I figure the kids had wandered around till they petered out, an' then, when they were exhausted, the wolves got 'em. But I've never heard of a wolf attackin' a man anywhere in the Rockies." "But I thought wolves ran in packs often." "Not in the United States, son, so far as I've heard of. I knew a Russian trapper, though, who meandered down this way from Alaska in the early days.
"Don't you dare so much as to mention pumps in my hearin' fur six months, Janoah Eldridge. I've had my fill of pumps fur one spell." The freckled face in the door expanded its smile into a grin that displayed the few scattered teeth adorning its owner's jaws. "No," went on the inventor, "I ain't attackin' no pumps to-day. I'm sorter takin' a vacation. You see we've got company.
Beirne's nephew!" echoed Carlisle Heth, without the slightest strategy. "Vivian? Who on earth, Willie?" demanded Mrs. Heth, puzzled; and looked, not at Willie, but at Carlisle. "Don't you remember? chap that wrote that fierce slush attackin' the Works, month or so ago? That's the bird. Got rye right here, if you prefer it, Canning. Walked a block with him and old Beirne just now.
'It was thee set 'm on a heerd thee a see'd thee a helping on 'em t' break in; they'd niver ha' thought on attackin' t' house, and settin' fire to yon things, if thou hadn't spoken on it. Simpson was now fairly crying. 'Ay, said he; 'it's a great thing for folk to have a chap for t' lead 'em wi' a head on his shouthers.
But we'd only about half done our work when a lot more soldiers comed swarmin' down, and Cap'n Drake sings out for everybody to get aboard and to cast off the hawsers for by this time there was nigh upon five hunderd Spaniards attackin' us, and we could do nothin' again so many.
They actilly expect the sun to shine, and the rain to fall, through their little House of Assembly. What have you done for us? they keep axin their members. Who did you spunk up to last Session? jist as if all legislation consisted in attackin some half dozen puss proud folks at Halifax, who are jist as big noodles as they be themselves.
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