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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...I stopped an' listened, but the wind sung in my ears an' drowned any sound I might have heard if the night had been still. The stingin' sleet cut my bare legs like the lash of a four-hoss whip. My feet was so numb that I didn't even feel the cactus I stepped on, but I knowed I'd feel 'em next day, if I lived. God! how the wind did blow. It jest seemed that it would lift the boulders out of the ground. I knowed I couldn't foller the pinto, so I started back fer the bed. " 'Then a truth that made my hair white pried itself into my brain. I didn't have no more idea where that bed was than a blind I t mole. I jest weakened then; an' shivered. I was learnin' a lesson that night that I know by heart till yit. " ' I wandered around. I had to. Every time a big gust would come I'd honker down an' try to shield as much of me as I could. The parts that had to take it felt like they was bleedin'. An' dark! Ye couldn't have drilled a hole in the blackness with a ten-pound hammer an' inch steel. Where there wasn't any cactus there was rocks, an' they was slippery as all time. I'd fall; and it took all my nerve to keep down a sneakin' desire to give it up. But it was a fall that brought me luck. I went kerflop, an' beared a noise near me. I knowed it was the pin-to's hoofs agin the rocks. I figgered the saddle had ketched an' hung him up. An' it had. " ' I got him. He tried to bolt, but I hung on like a wood-tick. I couldn't untie the rope from the saddle cinch, so I had to drag the mantle an' pack the saddle. I set the hoss to work by makin' him trot around me, figurin' he'd let me know if he hit the blankets by raisin' hell, an' he did. 'Most got away, but I held on till me an' the saddle hung up in a rock pile not far from the bed. I got back to it, but it...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151536150
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151536156
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 73 gr


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