We rowed in, constructed a hasty fireplace of stones, spread our blankets, and built an unnecessary fire near the beach.

I had informed North at about what time we would be on Deer Creek, and it was agreed that he should appear in the vicinity with some of his Pawnees, who were to throw their blankets around them, and come dashing down upon us, firing and whooping in true Indian style; while he was to either conceal or disguise himself.

The Innocent slumbered peacefully, with a smile on his good-humored, freckled face; the virgin Piney slept beside her frailer sisters as sweetly as though attended by celestial guardians, and Mr. Oakhurst, drawing his blanket over his shoulders, stroked his mustaches and waited for the dawn.

As I entered the village I wrapped a blanket around my head so that the Indians could not tell whether I was a white or a red man.

"For that reason I brought the blanket.

Marcos took the blanket while Juanita explained that having slept soundly every night of her life without exception, she could well now accommodate herself with a rest of two hours in the hay.

After this he went into the tent, and when he came out he carried a blanket under his arm.

Then he rolls up his blankets, for there is a premium on sleeping-space, and goes out, with never a notion that he is doing more than any man would, anywhere in the world, to find a place in some neighbour's hut to pass the night.

In a very few minutes I was met by some of the infantrymen and trackmen, and jumping to the ground and pulling the blanket and saddle off of Brigham, I told them what he had done for me; they at once took him in charge, led him around, and rubbed him down so vigorously that I thought they would rub him to death.

She had spread a mat on the floor, and folded up our fine blankets to serve for cushions; and all that did not belong to her she had bundled out of sight into that hollowed side I have mentioned as being intended for cattle.

One night he gave that blanket to a boy sicker than he was.

I cry in my breast, but over my lips I hold my thick blanket.

He had left his saddle-blanket out all night, he mentioned to Swing in the hearing of Jack Harpe.

I met my playmates, who were also wearing their best thick blankets.

The story is told of the Irishman who found a blanket bearing upon it the Government mark "U. S." Paddy examined the blanket carefully and on finding the mark shouted out: "U. for Patrick and S. for McCarty.

Without word or sign from us he threw his kit on the floor, unrolled his blankets, removed his boots, curled up on the sofa, and if he didn't go to sleep at once, gave such a perfect imitation of it that somebody's fox terrier came and sniffed him, and, recognizing a campaigner after his own wandering heart, jumped on his chest and settled down to sleep too.

High and low they looked, turning over all the blankets in the tents, but not a sign of the wonderful "pump-gun" could they discover.

Some allowed hats, and some did not; and they were generally, I believe, allowed one blanket in two years.

" The Colonel had got the blankets out now, but where was the rubber sheet?

"You will see the stars," said the old man shaking out the blanket which Marcos had carried up from the cottage at the ford.

Tecumseh sprang to his feet, cast off his blanket and, with violent gestures, pronounced the governor's words false.

Over all they laid a thick blanket of the earth which had been dug out to make a level foundation.

" remarked Wampus, placing the last blanket on Mr. Merrick's improvised bed.

" He turned away and picked up Fabiani's blanket.

A few hours later, however, he was found looking very disconsolate, and trying very hard to sell some supposed curiosities for a few dollars with which to buy a blanket he sorely needed.