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He had not exaggerated his sentiments when he intimated plainly to her his hatred of Manley, and he agreed with her that the fellow was making a despicable return for the kindness his neighbors had always shown him. No doubt he had stolen from the Double Diamond as well as the Wishbone. Once Kent pulled up, half minded to go back and let events shape themselves without any interference from him.
She did not want to miss seeing him; she decided to sound Polycarp Jenks the next time he came. Polycarp would know, of course, whether the Wishbone outfit was in from round-up. Polycarp always knew everything that had been done, or was intended, among the neighbors. Manley passed the ill-smelling iron back to her, and she put it in the fire, quite mechanically.
"What makes you think so?" asked Donald, with a laugh. "Oh, I knew it all the time; and my wish came true, too." "How could your wish come true?" asked Donald, with a puzzled look, "when you got the little half of the wishbone?" "I don't know," replied Grace, "but my wish did come true." "And what did you wish?"
Presently I heard the tinkle of a bell from the box which he had unlocked. Following the example of others around me, I took from it a sort of two-pronged fork with the tines spread in the similitude of a chicken's wishbone. This contrivance, which was attached to the side of the car by a cord, I proceeded to apply to my ears, as I saw the others doing.
"And you say all this happened to-day?" Fred pondered for a minute. "That's queer, because I almost caught a fellow last night doing some funny work on a calf. A Wishbone cow it was, and her calf fresh burned a barred-out brand, by thunder! If it was to-day, I'd, say Man found it and blotched the brand. I wish now I'd hazed them over to the Double Diamond and corralled 'em, like I had a mind to.
"Thank goodness, I saved the wishbone!" said Elnora. "As usual, I can prove that there was a bird." She turned toward the box. Billy had improved the time. He had the last piece of cake in one hand, and the last bite of salad disappeared in one great gulp. Then the girls shouted again. "Let's have a sample ourselves," suggested one. She caught up the box and handed out the remaining sandwich.
Damon took all this in at a glance, and then their gaze went forward to where the avalanche had torn away a great part of the mountain. "Whew! I should say it was a landslide!" cried Tom. "Bless my wishbone, yes!" agreed Mr. Damon. Below them, in the valley, lay piled immense masses of earth and stones.
Her hair was thick and glossy and black in the mode that throws deep purple shadows under the rolls and coils. Her face was a regular oval, like the opening in a wishbone. Her skin was dark, but rich and dusky with life and red blood that ebbed and flowed with her shyness. Her lips were full, and of a dark cherry red.
"Impossible!" He was so angry with Mr. Crow that he couldn't say anything more. For all that, he strode away towards the farmyard. And he had a most uneasy feeling under his wishbone. Turkey Proudfoot came hurrying back to the farmyard from the meadow where Mr. Crow had stopped and advised him to go home and see Johnnie Green's new pet.
It's because I wanted your advice that I " "It's a pity you didn't get it sooner, then! Can't you see what you've done? Why, think a minute! A VP calf running with a Wishbone cow why, it's you couldn't advertise Man as a rustler any better if you tried. The first fellow that runs onto that cow and calf well, he won't need to do any guessing he'll know. It's a ticket to Deer Lodge that VP calf.
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