He told me it was a cinch-hook hitch employed by mule packers in the mountains, and that he had used it on swamp-hooks in the lumber woods of Michigan.

"It's a cinch, Peggy.

I tell you everything is in our favor, and with your popularity here, it should be a cinch.

To be sure, there was no saddle, no cutting, binding cinch, no drag of cruel Spanish curb to control his head, no tearing spurs to threaten him.

"They're just like cinch-bindersyou can't tell when they're going to rare up and fall over backwards!"

Only when the outlaw fell had he thrown forward his right leg and hooked the sharp rowels into the strong fiber of the forward cinch.

Nothe other way As Carolyn June tightened the rear cinch on the Gold Dust maverick and turned toward the door of the stall with: "Look out, boysI'm coming out!"

"Then it's a cinch," returned Hunn mildly.

In the very act of pulling up the cinch of his saddle, Silent stopped short, turned, and raised a hand for quiet.

After a time Arthur and his wife came in and they had a dreary game of "cinch," the man speaking but little, the woman not at all.

" "You mean" "That I intend to cinch that government business.

"Which isn't any lead-pipe cinch, I'd say!" CHAPTER IV CARROLL HAS A VISITOR Carroll gazed intently upon the face of the dead man.

"If you want to cinch the claim, the first thing to do is go and stamp the life out of Darby; otherwise he'll turn up and make us trouble, just as he says.

It was a cinch if he didn't give it to you you couldn't get nothin'.

"Besides your own cinch, you have one of your gente for deputy in every precinct in the county.

Tom pretended an awkwardness which deceived the others, and convinced Zeigler, to use a common expression, he had a "cinch" in this little affair.

Davis drew the rope taut under the cinch and tied Jack's other ankle as if he were putting the diamond hitch on a pack mule.

He dismounted to tighten the cinch on Chinook's saddle.

"It ain't any cinch right nowbut

If we ever get a cinch on you, you can expect we'll pull her till the latigoes snap.'

"'It's all right about that cinch!'

"There ain't anything an Injun likes better than to sit tight and enjoy a cinch.

It's a dead cinch they'll jump a bear an' we'll see him.

The saddle he jerked by one stirrup leather from the wall and flung it on her back, and when she cringed to the far side of the stall, he cursed her again, bitterly, and drew up the cinch with a lunge that made her groan.

" "Well," said Casey, "I dunno as any of us has got any cinch on living.