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diff --git a/40574-h/40574-h.htm b/40574-h/40574-h.htm index 9f06e77..29e13b3 100644 --- a/40574-h/40574-h.htm +++ b/40574-h/40574-h.htm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ranche on the Oxhide, by Henry Inman</title> <style type="text/css"> @@ -97,27 +97,10 @@ </style> </head> <body> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40574 ***</div> <h1>The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Ranche on the Oxhide, by Henry Inman, Illustrated by Charles Bradford Hudson</h1> -<p>This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at <a -href="http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></p> -<p>Title: The Ranche on the Oxhide</p> -<p> A Story of Boys' and Girls' Life on the Frontier</p> -<p>Author: Henry Inman</p> -<p>Release Date: August 24, 2012 [eBook #40574]</p> -<p>Language: English</p> -<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> -<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RANCHE ON THE OXHIDE***</p> <p> </p> -<h4>E-text prepared by David Edwards, Emmy,<br /> - and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> - (<a href="http://www.pgdp.net">http://www.pgdp.net</a>)<br /> - from page images generously made available by<br /> - Internet Archive<br /> - (<a href="http://archive.org">http://archive.org</a>)</h4> <p> </p> <table border="0" style="background-color: #ccccff;margin: 0 auto;" cellpadding="10"> <tr> @@ -251,7 +234,7 @@ on the Frontier</i></span><br /> <span class='small'>BREVET LIEUTENANT COLONEL</span><br /> <br /> <span class='small'>AUTHOR OF</span><br /> -<span class='small'>THE OLD SANTA FÉ TRAIL</span><br /> +<span class='small'>THE OLD SANTA FÉ TRAIL</span><br /> <br /> Illustrated by<br /> Charles Bradford Hudson<br /><br /><br /> @@ -831,7 +814,7 @@ country, had given them two fine greyhounds, which they named Bluey and Brutus; the former on account of his color, and the other because they had recently been interested in Shakespeare's -play of "Julius Cæsar," which their +play of "Julius Cæsar," which their father had read to them. With these magnificent animals they had lots of fun during the long months of the winter, hunting jack-rabbits, digging<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> @@ -1613,7 +1596,7 @@ this he placed a fresh cartridge in his carbine and<span class="pagenum"><a name walked slowly on, following the beast's tracks, which had grown plainly visible a few paces from the edge of the water, and which soon led him -into a rocky cañon.</p> +into a rocky cañon.</p> <p>Joe came in sight of the panther much sooner than he expected. As he was turning the sharp @@ -2918,7 +2901,7 @@ not follow the trail up the river. They took a shorter cut over the hills bordering the stream where there was a series of buffalo paths running northward in the direction they wanted to go. -They thus saved a détour of three or four miles, +They thus saved a détour of three or four miles, an important consideration where time was of the greatest consequence. The buffalo paths all came out on the other side of the high divide @@ -3710,7 +3693,7 @@ the brink of a precipice, within a hundred yards of them, carefully looking down into the valley below to see if she could discover anything hostile. They are great watchers. The old one had -not seen me, and I had made a détour to the very +not seen me, and I had made a détour to the very summit of the mountain, where I could see that there was a trail which the mother used to travel in going to and from her young ones. I felt @@ -3755,7 +3738,7 @@ as plainly as if she could talk that they must make the leap to escape from their natural enemy. At last, as if the whole matter was understood, the mother flew back to the edge of the -cañon, the little ones hot in her tracks, and +cañon, the little ones hot in her tracks, and then all three made the jump, just clearing the frightful gorge by half the length of the young ones.</p> @@ -3914,7 +3897,7 @@ called the Klikatat Valley, in Washington Territory. I had been out after elk, but had not seen any, and was going up a very narrow, rocky ravine looking for their tracks. When I arrived -at the head of the little cañon, I heard a snarl. +at the head of the little cañon, I heard a snarl. Casting my eyes in the direction of the sound, I saw, to my dismay, a she panther on a flat ledge under a clump of dwarf cedars, with three kittens @@ -3956,7 +3939,7 @@ which they had captured out of the herd; their sisters' ponies also were saddled. Gertrude had a very gentle animal which her father had traded for with the Pawnees, but he was blind in one -eye, and she called him Bartimæus, or Barty for +eye, and she called him Bartimæus, or Barty for short. He was hard to catch, but when caught was a quiet, easily ridden animal. Kate's was an iron-gray which had been born on a neighboring @@ -4360,7 +4343,7 @@ savages.</p> <p>Crossing the creek, followed by the wagons, Joe and he ascended the hill on the other side.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[145]</a></span> They had not proceeded a quarter of a mile when -Buffalo Bill picked up from the trail a small par-flèche +Buffalo Bill picked up from the trail a small par-flèche basket, which Joe immediately recognized as belonging to his sister.</p> @@ -4435,7 +4418,7 @@ it as long as she lived.</p> <p>Without saying a word to her mother or Gertrude, she took out of her room a little basket -made of par-flèche,<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> given to Joe by the Pawnees, +made of par-flèche,<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> given to Joe by the Pawnees, and by him presented to her. She went out to the pasture, caught her pony, Ginger, saddled him, and rode out to the fatal raspberry patch where @@ -4647,7 +4630,7 @@ sobriquet they had given him often mentioned in their talks around the camp-fires.</p> <div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3> -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Par-flèche is the tanned hide of the buffalo, without the hair. +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Par-flèche is the tanned hide of the buffalo, without the hair. The Indians make baskets and boxes of it in which to pack their provisions and other articles when they move their villages.</p></div></div> <hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[156]</a></span></p> @@ -5307,7 +5290,7 @@ was the staple food of all tribes of Indians from the far north to the extreme south, who attempted to cultivate the soil at all.</p> -<p>"The celebrated Père Marquette, the Catholic +<p>"The celebrated Père Marquette, the Catholic priest who passed his life among the savages, met with it at every point, on his memorable journey down the Mississippi River, in 1763. It @@ -5340,7 +5323,7 @@ halted on the island, taking advantage of the thick timber which grew in groups, as a convenient spot to torture their captives.</p> -<p>"Père Marquette, whom the Indians called +<p>"Père Marquette, whom the Indians called 'The White Prophet,' happened to be there most opportunely; for through the respect and veneration in which the monk was held, he saved the @@ -5607,7 +5590,7 @@ helpless as a child. He won't walk, and it was thought that by killing all the ponies we found, it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[190]</a></span> would cripple the savages as effectually as if we killed the same number of warriors. The bunch -was driven into a narrow cañon near their camp, +was driven into a narrow cañon near their camp, and as they huddled against the high rocky wall, a detachment of the cavalry was detailed to shoot them. We camped near there for a few days, @@ -7179,7 +7162,7 @@ they discovered the large herd unsuspiciously grazing about two miles away.</p> <p>The seven Indians were then ordered to make -a détour far beyond the animals, at least a mile +a détour far beyond the animals, at least a mile from the far side of them, while Joe and White<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[248]</a></span> Wolf secreted themselves in a large patch of bunch-grass. This was out on the prairie about @@ -7468,7 +7451,7 @@ Some of the warriors were picketing their riding animals near the tepees, allowing the loose ponies to run at large, as they will never leave the main bunch. Others were packing -their wallets of par-flèche with dried meat +their wallets of par-flèche with dried meat for the journey. White Wolf was sitting in the door of his lodge, smoking his pipe and giving general directions to his warriors.</p> @@ -7503,7 +7486,7 @@ more importance to him than eating.</p> <p>The Big Bend where the Pawnees wished to cross the Arkansas was seventy-two miles from the Oxhide, near the famous Pawnee Rock, on -the old Santa Fé Trail.</p> +the old Santa Fé Trail.</p> <p>When the sun was about two hours high, they could see, three or four miles distant, the @@ -8255,7 +8238,7 @@ would have been declared "distanced."</p> <p>Such a shout went up from the veranda of the house, where the family were sitting, as they saw Ginger dash ahead, and Joe caught -the sound of it as the wind wafted the pæan of +the sound of it as the wind wafted the pæan of victory to his ears.</p> <p>White Wolf was disappointed in the result. @@ -8543,360 +8526,6 @@ happy childhood.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> -<hr class="full" /> -<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RANCHE ON THE OXHIDE***</p> -<p>******* This file should be named 40574-h.txt or 40574-h.zip *******</p> -<p>This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:<br /> -<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/4/0/5/7/40574">http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/5/7/40574</a></p> -<p> -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed.</p> - -<p> -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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