" "Nay," quoth Little John testily, at the same time rising carefully, as though his bones had been made of glass, "I can help myself, good fellow, without thy aid; and let me tell thee, had it not been for that vile cowskin cap of thine, it would have been ill for thee this day.

The boy's eyes twinkled, and so would mine at so valuable a piece, and he took out from his pocket a battered cowskin flask.

He took the woman into the door yard, stripped her clothes down to her hipstied her hands together, and drawing them up to a limb, so that she could just touch the ground, took a very large cowskin whip, and commenced flogging; he said that every stroke at first raised the skin, and immediately the blood came through; this he continued, until the blood stood in a puddle down at her feet.

They whipped him by turns, with heavy cowskins, and made the dogs shake him.

"Ranaway, the negro slave named Jupiterhas a fresh mark of a cowskin on one of his cheeks.

He took the woman into the door yard, stripped her clothes down to her hipstied her hands together, and drawing them up to a limb, so that she could just touch the ground, took a very large cowskin whip, and commenced flogging; he said that every stroke at first raised the skin, and immediately the blood came through; this he continued, until the blood stood in a puddle down at her feet.

It was said to be his usual custom to repair, about the break of day, to their cabin doors, and, as the blacks passed out, to give them as many strokes of his cowskin as opportunity afforded; and he would proceed in this manner from cabin to cabin until they were all out.

They whipped him by turns, with heavy cowskins, and made the dogs shake him.

If, after a sleepless night with the restless babes, (driven from the bosom of their mother,) she performed her toilsome avocations with diminished activity, her mistress, with her own lady-like hands, applied the cowskin, and the neighborhood resounded with the cries of her victim.

The next day the parties met on horseback, when Harper dismounted, and proceeded to cowskin Nevils for the chastisement inflicted on the negroes.

The sheriff had a process to serve on a man of the name of Bright, and, in consequence of some difficulty and intemperate language, thought proper to commence the service by the application of his cowskin to the defendant.

The young men kept hunting, and the women were always busy drying meat and tanning robes and cowskins.

The ancient dress of the women was a shirt of cowskin, with long sleeves tied at the wrist, a skirt reaching half-way from knees to ankles, and leggings tied above the knees, with sometimes a supporting string running from the belt to the leggings.

Moccasins for winter use were made of buffalo robe, and of tanned buffalo cowskin for summer wear.

Lodges were always made of tanned cowskin, nicely cut and sewn together, so as to form an almost perfect cone.

Twelve cowskins made a lodge about fourteen feet in diameter at the base, and ten feet high.

Her mother makes her a new cowskin lodge, complete, with new lodge poles, lining, and back rests.

The tanned cowskins made their lodges, the warmest and most comfortable portable shelters ever devised.

ANTELOPE It is said that once in early times the men determined that they would use antelope skins for their women's dresses, instead of cowskins.

Besides this, they often made a more enduring record of these acts, by reproducing them pictographically on robes, cowskins, and other hides.

There is now in my possession an illuminated cowskin, presented to me by Mr. J. Kipp, which contains the record of the coups and the most striking events in the life of Red Crane, a Blackfoot warrior, painted by himself.

The hot rocks are then handed in from the fire outside, and the cowskins pulled down to the ground to exclude any cold air.

And that old cowskin bag is not Sir George's.

His wagon, we noticed, cut in between the herds, until it reached the lead of his cattle, when it halted suddenly, and we noticed that they were cutting off a dry cowskin that swung under the wagon.

I called Big Dick, my boss roper, and told him what I suspected,that they were going to try and stampede us with a dry cowskin tied to that steer's tail they had down.