" He led the way behind a little shack, a troop of children following, and there were two wolf-dogs, not in the best condition, one reddish, with a white face and white forelegs, the other grey with a black splotch on his chest and a white one on his back.

" The two conspirators hastened across the field to the unpainted wooden shack that housed the committee.

Of course most of the dwellings were tentsdog tents many of them; but there was a surprising sprinkling of wooden shacks, some of them of considerable size.

These cozy small shacks hid themselves behind a screen of haws among the scattered trees which flanked an ancient fortification, abandoned many years before, I judged, by the grass-grown looks of it.

Out of this crude shack had come the sole occupant, to stand and gaze about him for a minute, lifting his face to the moon.

"Darn a dirty shack!"

It led him to a settler's flimsy shack, the house of Tampico's parents, and as the big Bear reached it two human beings scrambled out of the rear door.

Upon this hollow shack the rain beat with redoubled fury, and even before they could make out the place through the blankets of rain, they heard the hollow drumming.

Cushions and curtains of turkey-red calico brightened the homely shack.

And when she looked over the port bow and saw in behind Halfway Point the huddled shacks of her brother's camp where so much had overtaken her, she experienced a swift rush of thankfulness that she wasas she was.

Nothing but sky and plain and its voice, the wind, unless you might count a lonely sod shack blocked against the horizon, miles away from a neighbour, miles from anywhere, its red-curtained square of window glowing through the early twilight.

The house, a mere shack, was being walled in with rock, port holes for the rifles being left.

It's cheaper to put up a miserable shack of an addition.

"Say, we must have landed close to some native shack, and that's a baby crying!"

We ran through strings of nearly touching little towns, where I remembered an occasional shack; and through big towns once represented by a name-board, a siding, and two troopers of the North-West Police.

"Odd old shack over there.

As he passed the outermost shack a light flashed up within it.

Then a sudden slight turn in the road brought me upon a rude shack, showing a blacksmith's fire glowing within, and the smith himself pounding busily away at an anvil.

Now listen, Hank, here's the plan" Still talking, the ill-assorted pair entered the ruinous shack.

They gather in some sizable shack, set the stove out into the yard, soak themselves in aromatic spirits of deviltry and dance from Saturday night until Monday noon" "And this Ruggam killed a sheriff at one of them?" "He got into a brawl with another chap about his wife.

Still more did the tumbledown shacks in the neighborhood of the cannery offend the eyes and, to be frank, the ears and nose as well.

Two or three buildings, typical logging-camp shacks of split cedar, rose back from the beach.

This is an awful shack, of course, but it is the country, and the children will enjoy the woods and brooks and fields, even if it is cold.

Alan Massey had found his cousin in a wretched, vermin haunted shack, nursed in haphazard fashion by a slovenly, ignorant half-breed woman under the ostensible professional care of a mercenary, incompetent, drunken Mexican doctor who cared little enough whether the dog of an American lived or died so long as he himself continued to get the generous checks from a certain newspaper in New York City.

His home was a bare shack, sometimes built on the wind-swept alkali plains, and sometimes in the tangled woods.