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Updated: July 31, 2024
"If you do that," said the girl, "she'll back-fire and break your arm that is to say if she does anything at all, which she probably won't. She sprained father's wrist last week. That's how I came to be driving her to-day." Geoffrey was aware of the unpleasant effects of a back-fire. But he took the risk without hesitating. Nothing happened. The car, though obstinate, was not apparently malicious.
I took her by the arm, and leading the excited horse, we moved over into our zone of safety. She was trembling like a leaf. I was a little anxious for a few minutes for fear I had not started my back-fire soon enough; but the fear soon passed. The fire came on with a swelling roar.
This consumes the grass on which the flames feed, and when they reach that spot there is nothing for them to burn. And if one stands on the area burned he will be comparatively safe. Of course care must be taken not to get singed in the back-fire. Another method is to plow the ground, turning the dried grass under, and leaving only the bare earth exposed.
"I've got a clover guard, anyhow. I don't need to back-fire like my neighbors do." As Asher untied his ponies and climbed into the wagon, Jim held their reins. "Stop a minute. Let a single man offer you a word of advice, will you?" he asked. "All right, I need advice," Asher smiled down on Jim's earnest face. "Then heed it, too. No use to tell you to take care of your wife.
Miss Maitland, seeing the flames approaching the magazine with alarming rapidity, hastily started a back-fire, adapting Wilkinson's style to her purpose with a success which repartee not being her strongest point astonished even herself. "Charlie's views on art," she said to the smoldering Pelgram, "are always interesting because they are so wholly free and natural.
Dickinson and Gorse became alarmed, and one morning the banker turned up at the Club while I was eating my breakfast. "Look here, Hugh," he said, "we may as well face the fact that we've got a fight ahead of us, we'll have to start some sort of a back-fire right away." "You think Greenhalge has a chance of being elected?" I asked. "I'm not afraid of Greenhalge, but of this fellow Krebs.
Lint an' a young herd of little Lints; least, that's all was there las' night." "I must go up," said Zen, with instant decision. "I can get there before the fire, and as the Lints are evidently farmers there will be some plowed land, or at least a plow with which to run a furrow so that we can start a back-fire. Direct me."
But it ain't more 'n eight or ten miles away, and comin' like sixty. It could make the farm ahead of us. We'll just get on to the back-fire at the station and keep from gettin' singed." They sat silent for a moment. Then the biggest brother turned about and clucked to the blue mare.
As soon as one blaze was beaten out, another started. A shower of sparks close to Cattle Cañon swept over the ridge and set the thick grass afire. This was smothered with saddle blankets and with sand and dirt thrown from shovels. Nearer to San Jacinto Cañon the danger was more acute. Dave did not dare back-fire on account of the wind.
Why not, in frontier parlance, start a back-fire that would make Tripoli too hot for Yusuf? He laid his plans before his superiors at Washington, who, while not altogether convinced of his competence to play the king-maker, were persuaded to make him navy agent, subject to the orders of the commander of the American squadron in the Mediterranean.
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