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After passing his eyes over him from head to foot, and there resting them a moment, a low murmur escaped his lips, which ended abruptly in the word "Coco." "A Coco, do ye think?" inquired the other, with an apparent interest. "Are 'ee blind, Billee? Don't 'ee see his moccasin?" "Yes, you're right, but I was in thar nation two years ago. I seed no such man as that." "He w'an't there."
Ask him to come and drink a cup of Paso wine. Tell him to bring his sister with him." The servant hurried away through the camp. While he was gone, we conversed about the feat which the Coco had performed with his rifle. "I never knew him to fire," remarked Seguin, "without hitting his mark. There is something mysterious about that.
Instead, he came back suddenly on his haunches, as if the rope on the cow-puncher's saddle had lurched to the leap of a steer. Coco knew well the precise instant when it is advisable for a cow-pony to forestall the wrench of the lasso. But now the loop of hemp hung limp on the saddle-horn, and Gribble, surprised at being nearly thrown, rose in the stirrups to see what was underfoot.
Who do youse t'ink youse is? An' I says, 'I'm de guy what's goin' to swat youse on de coco, smarty, if youse don't quit fussin' de poor dumb animal. So wit' dat he makes a break at swattin' me one, but I swats him one, an' I swats de odder feller one, an' den I swats dem bote some more, an' I gits de kitty, an' I brings her in here, cos I t'inks maybe youse'll look after her.
Such a computation is impossible when we read of entire towns destroyed not once but 6, 8, and 10 times; of crops swept away by the tempest's fury, and the subsequent starvation of untold thousands; of whole fleets of ships swallowed up by the sea with every soul on board, and of hundreds of others cast on shore like coco shards.
The boat boys leaned frantically on their sweeps, and managed just to avoid us. The dhow also rammed the mudbank. A dozen reluctant boys hopped overboard and pushed us off. We pursued our merry way again. On either hand now appeared fish weirs of plaited coco fibre; which, being planted in the shallows, helped us materially to guess at the channel.
Feel like I needed someone to lend me a biff on the coco, sir, to make sure as I aren't a dreamin' it's so wot a cove fancies 'Eaven to be like, sir." And afterward, when the day was older, and they had gone to Richmond, and Cleek in his boating flannels was pulling him up the shining river and talking to him again as he had talked last night, he felt that it was even more like Heaven than ever.
And then, just when he was on the point of consigning the Pack to the devil for inflicting upon him such cruel and inhuman punishment, the Spanish girl picked her way through the mob of dancers who invaded the floor promptly on her withdrawal, and paused beside his table. "You're not angry, mon coco?" she pleaded with a provocative smile. Lanyard returned a smiling negative.
Just as I got there Gussie emerged from its depths with a triumphant face. Her skirt was muddy and draggled, her hair had tumbled down, and she held a dripping black cat. "Coco must have fallen into the well last night," she explained, as I helped her to the ground. "I missed him at milking-time, and when I came to the well this morning I heard the most ear-splitting yowls coming up from it.
In rowing up and down with their commodities in these boats, they have a great sombrero or umbrella over their heads, to defend them from the sun, as broad and round as a great cart wheel, made of the leaves of the coco or the fig tree, which are very light.
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