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"Look here!" he shouted across to Mac, "I'll give you a lay on my best claim for two thousand down and a small royalty." Mac stuck out his jaw. "I'd like to take a look at the country before I deal." "Well, see here. When will you go?" "We got no dogs." "We have!" exclaimed Salmon P. and Scruff with one voice. "Well, I can offer you fellows " "How many miles did you travel a day?"
"When the time suits, go thou," he whispered, "out of the lodge and across the snow, down the wind to the bunch of jackpine in the curve of the creek. There wilt thou find my dogs and my sled, packed for the trail. This night we go down to the Yukon; and since we go fast, lay thou hands upon what dogs come nigh thee, by the scruff of the neck, and drag them to the sled in the curve of the creek."
"I want to do everything for the best," said the other, "and I s'pose the right and proper thing to do is to take him by the scruff of his neck and run him along to Nancy." "You try it," said Mr. Carter, hotly. "Who is Nancy?" The other growled, and was about to aim a blow at him when his son threw himself upon him and besought him to be calm. "Just one," said his father, struggling, "only one.
I thought a lot of Lil, as much almost as if she'd been my own; and lots o' times, when I think of it, I sit up straight, and the thing freezes me; and I want to get Marchand by the scruff of the neck. I got a horse, the worst that ever was so bad I haven't had the heart to ride him or sell him. He's so bad he makes me laugh. There's nothing he won't do, from biting to bolting.
The cubs, very small, helpless and forlorn, howled lustily for their mother. I decided to tie their feet together, and their mouths shut. With ready cord, I dived headlong upon a cub, caught him by the scruff of the neck, lifted him triumphantly then dropped him unceremoniously, the end of a finger badly bitten.
But it offered a wonderful mixture of hues: a yellow beak, brown feet and claws, hazel wings with purple tips, pale yellow head and scruff of the neck, emerald throat, the belly and chest maroon to brown.
"I held his cap firmly with the one hand and him by the scruff of the neck with the other; and says I to him, 'Little man, ye'll not be getting this back till ye've fetched me a dinner fit for a tinker. 'Well, and good, says he, 'but ye can't find that this side of the King's Hotel, Dublin; and that will take time. 'Take the time, says I, 'but get the dinner. And from that minute till the present I've been waiting under that quicken-tree for him to make the trip there and back."
All turned in surprise toward this new speaker, to behold a very well-built young man urging a resisting captive toward them by the scruff of his neck. "It is a conspiracy," cried De Coude angrily. "There are no cards in my coat," and with that he ran his hand into his pocket. As he did so tense silence reigned in the little group.
The monkey whimpered again, and she took it by the scruff and tossed it to the floor. "Peace, ape, or I will have you strangled. Bestir yourself, father, and call Anton. There is a blight of deafness in this place." The room had suddenly lost its comfort and become cold and desolate. The lamps were burning low and the coloured hangings were in deep shadow.
'John Fry, you big villain! I cried, with John hanging up in the air by the scruff of his neck-cloth, but holding still by his knife and fork, and a goose-leg in between his lips, 'John Fry, what mean you by this, sir? 'Latt me dowun, or I can't tell 'e, John answered with some difficulty. So I let him come down, and I must confess that he had reason on his side.
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