[In the Pecos Country by Edward Sylvester Ellis]@TWC D-Link bookIn the Pecos Country CHAPTER XXVII 8/9
I could n't tell where to look further, and I was afeared of gettin' off altogether. So I contented mesilf wid shtrayin' here and there, and now and then givin' out the signal that you and me used to toot when we was off on hunts together.
When this morning arriv', I struck signs agin, and at last found that your track led toward these bushes, and thinks I to myself, thinks I, you'd crawled in there to take a snooze, and I hove ahead to wake you up, but I was too ambitious for me own good, as was the case when I proposed to Bridget O'Flannigan, and found that she had been already married to Tim McGubbins a twelvemonth, and had a pair of twins to boast of.
I own it wasn't a dignified and graceful way of coming down-stairs, but I was down before I made up my mind." "Well, Mickey, we are here, and the great thing now is to get out.
Can you tell any way ?" The Irishman took the matter very philosophically.
It would seem that any one who had dropped down from the outer world as had he, would feel a trifle nervous; but he acted as if he had kindled his camp-fire on the prairie, with the certainty that no enemy was within a hundred miles. When he and his young friend had eaten all they needed, there was still a goodly quantity left, which he folded up with as much care in the same piece of paper as though it were a tiara of diamonds. "We won't throw that away just yet.
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