He would have kept them without food for a week on purpose to make a clean job of my poor scarecrow pickings.

The blacks drew hurriedly back to the top of the opposite bank, shouting and gesticulating violently, and leaving one solitary figure apparently covered with some scarecrow rags and part of a hat prominently alone in the sand.

I arrived this mornin', in the steamer, straight from Aspinwall, with this old scarecrow suit on, jest as you see me now.