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Shake the water off the tarp, you air lettin' water catch on your side an' it's running into my ear." That is the last I heard for a long time. I must have slept. I remember that the baby stirred and I spoke to him. It seemed to me that something struck against the guy-rope that held our tarpaulin taut, but I wasn't sure. I was in that dozy state, half asleep, when nothing is quite clear.
It was the man of all others whom I should have chosen Tarp Henry, of the staff of Nature, a thin, dry, leathery creature, who was full, to those who knew him, of kindly humanity. I plunged instantly into my subject. "What do you know of Professor Challenger?" "Challenger?" He gathered his brows in scientific disapproval.
Then, because Casey had streaks of wisdom, he closed the doors of the garage and locked them from the inside. Cars might come and honk as long as they liked; Casey was going to have his sleep. Very early he was awakened by the bleating, the barking, the crying and the wrangling of the Smiths. He pulled his tarp over his ears, hot as it was, to shut out the sound.
Disston lingered to watch her as she pulled the bedroll from her horse; and, clearing a space with her foot, freeing it of sticks and pebbles, spread out the canvas, pulling the "tarp" over a pillow beneath which he noticed a box of cartridges and a six-shooter. "For close work," she said, with a short laugh, observing his interest. He did not join her; instead his brows contracted.
Already the nights were pretty nippy, even to a warm blooded young fellow who had never in his life really suffered from cold. Some instinct of self-preservation impelled him to phone in for a canvas bed sheet a "tarp," he had heard Hank Brown call it and two pairs of the heaviest blankets to be had in Quincy.
It was part of the business of the cattleman to judge men and he was not convinced that this young fellow was as inoffensive as he looked. "Where you from?" asked the drover. "From the San Carlos Agency." "Ever meet a man named Micky Free out there?" "I've slept under the same tarp with him many's the time when we were followin' Chiricahua 'Paches.
From under the top of these he pulled out two flat little pillows. These he placed in position, and turned back some of the blankets. "Carley, you crawl in here, pile the blankets up, and the tarp over them," directed Glenn. "If it rains pull the tarp up over your head and let it rain." This direction sounded in Glenn's cheery voice a good deal more pleasurable than the possibilities suggested.
Over that is the tarp, and now I'm spreading down the blankets. You can feel 'em soft ones good blankets, I can tell you! Whole bed's kind of soft and springy, ma'am. You reckon you can sleep?" Responsively she stretched out a hand and felt across the surface of the soft new blankets. "Why, where are the sheets?" said she. "Sheets!" said Sim Gage in sudden consternation. "Now, look at that!
For an instant Dave caught a glimpse of a dog circling the huddled pack; then dog and sheep were out of sight together. The pictures stirred memories of the acrid smoke of hill camp-fires, of nights under a tarp with the rain beating down on him, and still others of a road herd bawling for water, of winter camps when the ropes were frozen stiff and the snow slid from trees in small avalanches.
And we'd have to go up a ladder, and out a manhole, to get out of the conveyor tunnel. What sorta shape's Mr. Pelton in?" "He's under hypnotaine, completely unconscious," Prestonby said. "Then we'd have to drag him," Yetsko said. "Strap him up in a tarp, or load him into a sleeping bag, if we can get hold of one." "There are plenty, down in the warehouse," Latterman interrupted, joining them.
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