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Moving to the banks of some new stream, the rude man peels the bark from the tree and bends it over the tent pole; with a club he beats down the nuts from the branches; with a round stone he knocks the squirrel from the bough; another hour suffices for cutting a line from the ox's hide and, hastily making a hook out of the wishbone of the bird, he draws the trout from its stream.
But the contempt in Val's face did not change. "Well, you'll have to hunt for it if you want it. The cow a Wishbone cow, mind you! came and claimed it; I let her have it. No stolen goods can remain on this ranch with my knowledge, Manley Fleetwood. Please remember " "Oh, you turned it out, did you? You turned it out?" He had her by the throat, shaking her as a puppy shakes a purloined shoe.
The uncurling fists were outflung passionately. "I can't! I can't!" cried Pemrose Lorry, choking upon her own wishbone. "I I'm not in the humor for it for foolery! I must go on right on and search! This this is the shortest trail down the mountain, if it's the roughest I know that!" She looked desperately at old Andrew.
"Say, this sure is going some!" cried Larry, as he took another helping of chicken, prepared on the electric stove. "Think of dining a mile in the air!" "As long as we don't fall down while we're dining, I shan't mind," mumbled Paul, as he picked a wishbone. The night passed without incident of moment.
He looked the Wishbone men squarely in the eye, and it seldom occurred to him that he was a thief; or if it did, the word was but a synonym for luck, with shrewdness behind. Sometimes he regretted his timidity. Why three calves only? In a deep little coulee next the river a coulee which the round-up had missed had been more than three.
And so they argued for a few minutes, until their mother entered the room and told them that if they could not stop quarrelling over the wishbone she would take it from them and throw it into the fire. So they lost no time in taking it by the ends and snapping it asunder. "Hurrah!" exclaimed Donald, observing Grace's expression of disappointment. "I've got it!"
"You can't be sure. She TOLD me I'd get the wish I made on it. I'm going to try whenever I get home." "It can't do any harm, anyhow," said Peter, "but I'm afraid you've left it too late. If Pat is dead even a witch's wishbone can't bring him back to life." "I'll never forgive myself for not thinking about it before," mourned Cecily.
Your second joints were very sweet and juicy, and your drumsticks were like sticks of candy." "And you broke my poor old wishbone with your little sister, didn't you?" "I did." "And what did you wish?" asked the gobbler. "You mustn't ask me that," replied Donald, "because, you know, if I tell you the wish I made it would not come true."
They have a tactful fashion of coming over with a plate of hot biscuit or a big bowl of steaming okra-and-tomato soup. Often a bowl of that soup fetched in by a thoughtful neighbor, or an apronful of sweet potatoes Emma Campbell brought with her when she did the washing, kept Peter's backbone and wishbone from rubbing noses.
To the east, to the south, to the north went the riders of the Wishbone, gathering the cattle which the fires had driven afar. No rivers stopped them, nor mountains, nor the deep-scarred coulees, nor the plains.
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