The Snake River Deserts.- Scanty Fare.- Bewildered Travellers -
Prowling Indians- A Giant Crow Chief.- A Bully Rebuked- Indian Signals.- Smoke on the Mountains.- Mad River.- An Alarm.- An Indian Foray- A Scamper.- A Rude Indian joke.- A Sharp-Shooter Balked of His Shot.
It was a great night for
prowling. A moon so little less than full that the eye could barely detect its slight tendency to become concave, shone serenely, creating a desirable combination of black shadows where the prowler might hide and great stretches of light in which the prowler might reveal his wickedness without disguise.
But she said, if there was a piece left, for you to put it in the pantry and she'd run over in the cat's light, when
prowling's in order, to get it.
Black robber bees are swiftly and stealthily
prowling about the combs, and the short home bees, shriveled and listless as if they were old, creep slowly about without trying to hinder the robbers, having lost all motive and all sense of life.
It give me the cold shudders when he said them words, because right away I remembered about us seeing Uncle Silas
prowling around with a long-handled shovel away in the night that night.
I would go out into the streets to fight with my delusion, and
prowling women would mew after me; furtive, craving men glance jealously at me; weary, pale workers go coughing by me with tired eyes and eager paces, like wounded deer dripping blood; old people, bent and dull, pass murmuring to themselves; and, all unheeding, a ragged tail of gibing children.
The results of an anatomical examination of the Martians, so far as the
prowling dogs had left such an examination possible, I have already given.
They informed Captain Bonneville, however, that not far from his quarters they had found a wallet of fresh meat and a cord, which they supposed had been left by some
prowling Blackfeet.
"What are you
prowling around here this time of night for -- hey?"
"I know not the meaning of all you have said, Doctor Battius," returned the quick-witted girl, who understood the weakness of the philosopher, and often indulged him with a title he loved so well to hear; "but I shall think it dangerous to venture far from the camp, if such monsters are
prowling over the prairies."
When she and Robert stepped into Tonie's boat, with the red lateen sail, misty spirit forms were
prowling in the shadows and among the reeds, and upon the water were phantom ships, speeding to cover.
There was a figure in the grounds--a figure
prowling for a sight, the visitor with whom Flora was engaged; but it was not the visitor most concerned with my boy.