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"What next?" asked Patches, as the last calf escaped through the gate which he had just opened, and ran to find the waiting and anxious mother. Phil looked at his companion, and laughed. Honorable Patches showed the effect of his strenuous and bungling efforts to learn the rudiments of the apparently simple trick of roping a calf.
"All that people like you disapprove of; all that you probably consider undignified and unladylike, such as riding, roping, shooting " "Riding unladylike? It's very smart. And why do you say people 'like me'? There are no people like me." "You know what I mean. You're not a Westerner. You are what a cowpuncher would call a swell Easterner."
Both were expert horsemen and the ponies under them were mettlesome. Indeed, Blackhawk had not entirely recovered his temper since his roping and it was he that set the pace. Yet the riders did not allow the ponies to run themselves out in the first few miles, holding them down to a long, steady lope that covered the ground rapidly.
This did not take very long; and pretty early in the afternoon I had my party at work on the poop, under an awning, cutting out worn cloths and inserting new from the stock of canvas carried for that purpose, ripping off the old roping and replacing it with new, and generally putting each sail into perfectly good and reliable condition.
He had donned a white shirt and knotted a black silk bandanna round his short neck. The morning was noisy with pony races, roping contests, and the riding of pitching horses. The events were not tabulated, but evolved through the unwritten law of precedent. After the noon feast there was talk of a shooting-match. Few of the local men packed guns, and none of them openly.
She ran back to the cabin for the cushions he had saved from the rain, and pushed them under his head; then tied the lantern to the whip socket; then recalled what he had said about "roping a log on behind as a brake."
We could not have picked out a better place for roping him, if we had been doing the picking," and his eyes glanced over the smooth level of the little valley. "We'll let him chase us until we get him away from the trees and bushes along the creek, and then we'll have some fun with the big brute with our ropes, before sending him to Kingdom Come with our bullets. What do you say, Thure?"
"Isn't there something that we can do?" "There's a moving picture show in town," said John. "Let's go to it for awhile." This was voted a good idea. The boys enjoyed the scenes thrown on the screene, and were particularly taken with a depiction of a cowboy roping a steer. "That's what we'll soon see in reality," whispered Nat.
Then he saw that Thure was slowly gaining, that the rope, which still clutched the hind leg of the grizzly, was slowly tightening; and, with breathless haste, he began reloading his rifle. He had had all the roping of El Feroz he wanted; and now his only desire was to get a bullet into the huge body, where it would kill quickly, as speedily as possible.
"Lite Avery says I can," she told him, "and Lite Avery can almost write his name in the air with a rope." "If you can make that dash down the bluff, and do the roping I want, why Lord! You'll have to be working a gold mine to beat what I'd be willing to pay for the stuff."
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