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diff --git a/41447-h/41447-h.htm b/41447-h/41447-h.htm index 7d40757..d644d53 100644 --- a/41447-h/41447-h.htm +++ b/41447-h/41447-h.htm @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of Curly, by Roger Pocock. @@ -176,46 +176,7 @@ table { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Curly, by Roger Pocock - -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 www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Curly - A Tale of the Arizona Desert - -Author: Roger Pocock - -Release Date: November 23, 2012 [EBook #41447] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CURLY *** - - - - -Produced by D Alexander, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41447 ***</div> <div class="figleft"> <img src="images/cover.jpg" alt=""/> @@ -688,7 +649,7 @@ water-lilies, shaded by palm trees, and surrounded by an arcade which is covered by creeping plants, ablaze with flowers. The private rooms open upon this cloister, big, cool, and dark, forming a little palace within the fortress walls. Such is the old Hacienda -Santa Cruz which Lord Balshannon had bought from El Señor Don Luis +Santa Cruz which Lord Balshannon had bought from El Señor Don Luis Barrios.</p></blockquote> <p>From the beginning I saw no sign and smelt no whiff of danger either of @@ -1016,7 +977,7 @@ five horses, so I wanted much to get my eye down for a little sleep. While the <i>peon</i> pulled off my boots I gave orders mixed with yawns to my segundo.</p> -<p>"Take charge, Teniente, and report my obedience to El Señor Don Rex. +<p>"Take charge, Teniente, and report my obedience to El Señor Don Rex. Post a guard of four in the gate-house, close the gates, and place a relief of sentries on the North-west Bastion. If the sentry sees anybody coming, the guard is to call me at once. See that my riders get sleep @@ -1213,7 +1174,7 @@ arms.</p> go."</p> <p>Balshannon lifted his hat and made a little bow, much polite. "My -house," he answered in Spanish, "is yours, señor!"</p> +house," he answered in Spanish, "is yours, señor!"</p> @@ -1680,7 +1641,7 @@ your lonesome, with all that money you got for your rotten ponies."</p> of his saddle and cowboy harness bright as stars, his teeth aflash, his eyes a-shining, as he stooped down to give me cheek at parting, and lit out with his tail up for home. His riders saluted me as their old chief -in passing, calling, "Buenas dias señor, adios!" Yes, they were good +in passing, calling, "Buenas dias señor, adios!" Yes, they were good boys, with all their dark skin and their habit of missing the wash-time; light-built riders, with big, soft eyes always watchful, grave manners, gentle voices, gay laughter, and their beautiful Spanish talk like low @@ -1698,7 +1659,7 @@ to me, and that range was my pasture where I had grazed for twelve good years. I could just judge, too, how Jim was wanting for home swift, while the segundo, good old Juan Terrazas, would pray the young lord to spare the little horses. "'Tis sixty leagues, and these our horses are -but children, señor."</p> +but children, señor."</p> <p>"Confound the horses!" says Jim, "let's burn the trail for home. Roll your trail, Pedro! <i>Vamenos!</i>"</p> @@ -1737,7 +1698,7 @@ more range of sight than a boiled owl."</p> level. "That man has lost his horse," says Jim; "thirsty, I guess, and signalling for help. Go back, Terrazas, and tell the men to wait."</p> -<p>"Si, señor," and Terrazas rolled back to the trail.</p> +<p>"Si, señor," and Terrazas rolled back to the trail.</p> <p>As Jim got nearer he saw that the man on the hill had signalled nothing, but his coat tails were a-flutter in the wind. Now he came all flapping @@ -1971,12 +1932,12 @@ the best horse for his message.</p> <p>"Onate!" he called.</p> -<p>"Si señor."</p> +<p>"Si señor."</p> <p>"Take this letter, Onate, to Mr. Chalkeye Davies in Lordsburgh. Then you'll follow me home."</p> -<p>Onate uncovered, took the letter, and bowed his thanks. "Gracias señor, +<p>Onate uncovered, took the letter, and bowed his thanks. "Gracias señor, adios!" and curved off swift for Lordsburgh.</p> <p>Then Jim saw the preacher's eyes boring him through.</p> @@ -2026,7 +1987,7 @@ dining-hall.</p> <p>So he followed the padre across the bare, whitewashed dining-hall, and on along the cloister of the palm tree court. He heard the death-cry keening out of the shadows, the bell tolled, and he went on through the -dark rooms, until he came to the señora, with women kneeling about the +dark rooms, until he came to the señora, with women kneeling about the bed, and candles lighted at her head and feet.</p> <hr style="width: 45%;" /> @@ -3399,7 +3360,7 @@ Perhaps the gentlemen will stand aside—I have explained."</p> railroad accident, "how do you account for that saddle, Jim du Chesnay's silver-mounted saddle?"</p> -<p>"Si Señor, the saddle of my young lord el Señor Don Sant Iago, of Holy +<p>"Si Señor, the saddle of my young lord el Señor Don Sant Iago, of Holy Cross. The caballero ordered me to bring these, that he might play bear before the house of a beautiful lady in Grave City."</p> @@ -3477,7 +3438,7 @@ for the youngsters had to go moderate and save their horses.</p> <p>"Down on yo' hawss," says Curly, "you ride too proud," and a spatter of blue lead made Jim lie humble. The fool gallopers were right handy for -war, when sudden the winding valley poured out its fan of débris upon +war, when sudden the winding valley poured out its fan of débris upon the lower plain towards Mexico. Here just below the mouth of the arroyo a railroad track swung right across the trail on a high embankment. On the nigh side of the embankment ran a waggon trail, climbing a hill on @@ -3770,14 +3731,14 @@ pulled up at the front door.</p> <p>"<i>Buenas noches hombre!</i>"</p> -<p>And somebody answered: "<i>Buenas tardes señor!</i>"</p> +<p>And somebody answered: "<i>Buenas tardes señor!</i>"</p> <p>Then talk began in Spanish. "Can a feed of corn be bought here for the horse? He arrives from Grave City."</p> <p>"What news of the gringoes?"</p> -<p>"<i>Muchos.</i> El Señor Don Rex has been shot."</p> +<p>"<i>Muchos.</i> El Señor Don Rex has been shot."</p> <p>"Don Rex has been murdered?"</p> @@ -3786,16 +3747,16 @@ Santiago——"</p> <p>"What, El Chico?"</p> -<p>"Yes, El Chico 'Jim,' had a feud against the very rich Señor Ryan. He +<p>"Yes, El Chico 'Jim,' had a feud against the very rich Señor Ryan. He hired ladrones from the north, the Robbers' Roost Gang it is called, to -murder Señor Ryan. It seems the ladrones wore masks, and they were led +murder Señor Ryan. It seems the ladrones wore masks, and they were led by a young robber named Curly, for whom great rewards are offered—two thousand pesos d'oro, dead or alive."</p> <p>"What a reward!"</p> -<p>"Yes, El Chico and this Curly led the robbers, and they attacked Señor -Ryan in the 'Sepulchre' saloon. El Chico killed Señor Ryan himself, and +<p>"Yes, El Chico and this Curly led the robbers, and they attacked Señor +Ryan in the 'Sepulchre' saloon. El Chico killed Señor Ryan himself, and wounded Miguel his son. There are many witnesses, and a warrant is out against Don Santiago for that murder. I saw the warrant."</p> @@ -3854,7 +3815,7 @@ arrested them, that's all. Two thousand pesos!"</p> through the pistol arm. Then they surrendered, made their bow to force. Two thousand golden dollars!"</p> -<p>"Miraculous! Well, señor corporal, may it be permitted to ask where +<p>"Miraculous! Well, señor corporal, may it be permitted to ask where forage is sold?"</p> <p>"Certainly, step this way. I, Pablo Juarez, rich! Two thousand! Santa @@ -4593,7 +4554,7 @@ strum of a guitar, while hands clapped out the time—</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"I could not be so well content,<br /></span> <span class="i2">So sure of thee,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Señorita,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Señorita,<br /></span> <span class="i4">Lolita;<br /></span> <span class="i0">But well I know thou must relent<br /></span> <span class="i2">And come to me,<br /></span> @@ -4608,7 +4569,7 @@ hands, the guitar, and the swinging chorus—</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"The caballeros throng to see<br /></span> <span class="i2">Thy laughing face,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Señorita,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Señorita,<br /></span> <span class="i4">Lolita;<br /></span> <span class="i0">But well I know thy heart's for me,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Thy charm, thy grace,<br /></span> @@ -4616,7 +4577,7 @@ hands, the guitar, and the swinging chorus—</p> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"I ride the range for thy dear sake,<br /></span> <span class="i2">To earn thee gold,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Señorita,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Señorita,<br /></span> <span class="i4">Lolita;<br /></span> <span class="i0">And steal the gringo's cows to make<br /></span> <span class="i2">A ranche to hold<br /></span> @@ -4739,7 +4700,7 @@ one called—</p> stall!"</p> <p>"I'll hire yo' ruddy scalp," says I, "instead of lamps. Wall, boys, -these town toughs has shot out El Señor Don, and they're proposing to +these town toughs has shot out El Señor Don, and they're proposing to play their pure fountain of law on two more of our tribe, the same being young Jim his son, and little Curly McCalmont."</p> @@ -4871,7 +4832,7 @@ brain, and the cold had eased her wound like some big medicine.</p> leather Mexican clothes were shrunk tight with rain, the staining ran in streaks on his face, his teeth played tunes with the cold.</p> -<p>"El Señor Don Santiago," says Curly, "yo' face has all gawn pinto, and +<p>"El Señor Don Santiago," says Curly, "yo' face has all gawn pinto, and it don't look Mexican that a-way in stripes. Maybe yo're changing into a sort of half-breed."</p> @@ -5234,7 +5195,7 @@ on Jim's feet. "Now jest you prance!"</p> <p>Jim laughed at him.</p> -<p>"<i>Mañana</i>," he said. Then in English, "You bark a lot, my friend. Whose +<p>"<i>Mañana</i>," he said. Then in English, "You bark a lot, my friend. Whose dog are you?"</p> <p>Then he heard McCalmont's slow, soft drawl. "I sure enjoy to see the @@ -6305,7 +6266,7 @@ was not much noise.</p> passed the mine, and inviting him to join their surprise-party down at the foot of the shaft. The citizens all accepted, and when some candles, a deck of cards, and a few bottles of nose paint were sent to assist, -the levée underground began to get quite a success.</p> +the levée underground began to get quite a success.</p> <p>Mixed in with these proceedings, and other hold-ups various and swift, was the Chinese cook with a robber holding his tail while he fixed @@ -6426,7 +6387,7 @@ feeding them each a bunch of dry herbs, the same being <i>loco</i> weed, and a heaps powerful medicine. Now we turn to the railroad station, where the main game was being played.</p> -<p>At one a. m. the night operator in the depôt remembered all of a sudden +<p>At one a. m. the night operator in the depôt remembered all of a sudden that the lady clerk, Miss Brumble, at Contention, had wired him to send on a parcel of stockings by Number 4. The night freight train was pulling out at the time, so he ran across the platform and pitched the @@ -7690,7 +7651,7 @@ military escort. There you will charter a waggon, and have the treasure delivered at the point where the Tuba trail from Flagstaff crosses the Little Colorado River, right in the middle of the Painted Desert. The waggon must then be abandoned, and the escort -to withdraw to Cañon Diablo, leaving no spies behind. The chief of +to withdraw to Cañon Diablo, leaving no spies behind. The chief of the robbers tells me that the man he sends with a team to get this waggon will be a perfectly innocent farmer, and that any parties attempting to molest, join, or follow him will be killed so quick @@ -7947,7 +7908,7 @@ and see her face in the fire where I camp.</p> Perhaps, says you, I'd better wake up right now and tend to my story.</p> <p>At midnight Curly rode into the town of Flagstaff. Afterwards, following -the Grand Cañon trail at daybreak, she happened by accident on a +the Grand Cañon trail at daybreak, she happened by accident on a stage-coach broken down with a load of tourists. The driver chanced to be a retired robber, gone tame with rheumatism, so she helped him to fix his linch pin which had snapped. As to the tourists, they were plumb @@ -8072,7 +8033,7 @@ it needs to be live fire. I have no brains or words to talk of what I've seen, and I reckon I'm a lot incompetent. The men who wrote the Bible ought to be turned loose on this earth again to make another book. Then folks who have not seen might understand such places as the Painted -Desert, the Rock City, and the Grand Cañon of the Colorado.</p> +Desert, the Rock City, and the Grand Cañon of the Colorado.</p> <p>What with delays in packing and driving I had to track Curly for maybe thirty miles before I caught her up at Clay Flat by the edge of the @@ -8105,7 +8066,7 @@ the sand.</p> <p>Beyond the city we curved around by a gap in the desert, a sort of crack half a mile deep, with a river along the bottom. It swung about like a snake, getting deeper and deeper; but we kept to the level desert, until -we reached a little side cañon, where there was feed and water. We +we reached a little side cañon, where there was feed and water. We resaddled there, taking Curly's buckskin and my pet horse Sam. The rest of our bunch we turned down into that pasture, and left them, riding on along the rim rock.</p> @@ -8117,7 +8078,7 @@ wide; it's more than a sheer mile deep, and full of mountain ranges all shaped like gigantic buildings. Dead weary as I was from riding more than two hundred miles in forty-eight hours, I forgot about being tired when I saw that place, the most tremendous thing in the whole earth, the -Grand Cañon of the Colorado.</p> +Grand Cañon of the Colorado.</p> <p>There was no rest for us, but seven miles of such a break-neck trail as I'd never imagined possible, for it overhung black death from start to @@ -8170,7 +8131,7 @@ find out what's wrong at Clay Flat."</p> <p>When this Pieface person had hit the trail, we took both boats across the river and swam our horses. From the far bank our way turned sharp to -the left into the side Cañon of Dirty Devil Creek. There we rode along +the left into the side Cañon of Dirty Devil Creek. There we rode along some miles in the water, so as to leave no trail; then, quitting the bottom, turned sharp back up a ledge, threading the face of the cliffs. The heat was blinding; it seemed as if we were being baked alive, and @@ -8471,7 +8432,7 @@ compass?"</p> <p>"I guess."</p> <p>"I'm going to explain the trail to the nearest settlement; see here." So -I began to scribble out a map showing the lie of the Cañons, the route +I began to scribble out a map showing the lie of the Cañons, the route to where we had left the boats, the signs to guide him beyond. "When you see this big butte towering high on the right——" I looked up, and found he was not listening, for he pointed his ears to the messroom @@ -8679,7 +8640,7 @@ walk, making me waddle all the same as a duck; which it humbles me to think of, because that Curly person loaded a sack on my withers, and herded me along like a pack mule until I felt no better than a spavined, groaning wreck. We must have gone afoot more than two whole miles before -we came out at last on the edge of the Grand Cañon.</p> +we came out at last on the edge of the Grand Cañon.</p> <p>At this place, right in under the rim rock, there was a hidden cavern—a fine big place when you got down there, but a scary climb to reach. @@ -8692,7 +8653,7 @@ me.</p> <p>It was dark when we got to the cavern, but next morning I saw that it was a sure fine hiding-place, the floor being covered with a whole village of old stone houses. There are thousands of cliff villages like -this in the cañon country, made by some breed of Indians long gone dead, +this in the cañon country, made by some breed of Indians long gone dead, but this one had special conveniences, because you could spit from the outer wall into sheer eternity. Seeing how the robbers were warped in their judgments of me, and the authorities likewise prejudiced, my @@ -9165,387 +9126,6 @@ Record-Herald.</i></p> <p>A novel of dramatic force, with a good plot.—<i>New York Times.</i></p> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Curly, by Roger Pocock - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CURLY *** - -***** This file should be named 41447-h.htm or 41447-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/4/4/41447/ - -Produced by D Alexander, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -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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