The Thundering Herd

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Next morning he readily answered Pilchuck's call, but his body was incapable of a like alacrity.†

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She must hurry back to camp and allay Jett's suspicions or fears concerning her.†

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Was there reason for him to invite antagonism among his men?†

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The fact that Hudnall and his men left off work, and Pilchuck insisted on being the arbiter of these selections, attested to the prime importance with which they regarded the matter.†

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Then, when in their wanderings to find some place to drink, they scented water, they would stampede, and in their madness to assuage an insupportable thirst, would plunge over one another in great waves, crushing to death those underneath.†

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If the meat was to be used, even given to the hungry people of the world, then the slaughter might be condoned.†

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Accordingly, Tom's state of mind was not conducive to tolerance, especially of such greed and selfishness as was manifested by some of the hunters.†

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After attending to his horse Tom had just about enough energy left to drink copiously and stretch out with a groan under a tree.†

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Love of Milly abided, and that alone saved him from the utter debasement of hard life at a hard time.†

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His ears were distending with a terrific thunder.†

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"Wait till I learn how!" exclaimed Tom, fired by the praise and the hopes thus engendered.†

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Some of its most pronounced characteristics, that had helped to make its ill fame, were enumerated and described by the Texan as tremendous obstacles to overcome on an expedition like Pilchuck's.†

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Forthwith he grasped his ripping knife and proceeded to try following instructions given him.†

2 uses

Hurd had been imbibing red liquor and Harkaway had no intention of avoiding trouble.†

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"Reckon we've got some good huntin' here, as long as this bunch hangs around the water," interposed Pilchuck.†

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"Run out of cartridges," he said, laconically.†

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"The last herd!" he said, with pathos.†

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No use to try to repudiate them!†

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This man was looking for untoward reactions in the people around him.†