The offenders were some of those Woodworth fellows, who, with a dozen or so others, had built shacks below "the street" yet well above the river.

They had learned from the bartender where to find Blandford Keith"In the worst-looking shack in the camp."

She entered the shack, felt for the matches in the tin tobacco-box nailed against the wall, and struck one to light the lamp.

Some minutes before the time named they were quietly leaving Keith's shack.

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

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.

I would have wished them destroyed right away, butBesides, what are the owners of those houses going to buy from me if they are all poor, all equally beggars?" "You can always buy up their shacks for a trifle.

Would the three suspect when they reached the shack by the ford and no Donnegan came to them?

Saw the Chinese cook, in his wadded coat of blue, disappear into the snow-covered mound that hid the provision shack, and watched the bounding pups refusing to be broken into harness by Siwash George.

Now and then a feeling came to Anthony that the gale might lift the tottering old shack and roll it on down the hillside to the floor of the valley, for it rocked and swayed under the breath of the storm.

"All we've got to do is to locate the shack that stands beside that trail.

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.

We had her in the house for a while, an' then Silent rigged up the little shack that stands a short ways" "I know the one you mean.

In that time ruined shack towards which the posse and Dan Barry rode, the outlaws sat about on the floor eating their supper when Hal Purvis entered.

"'Yes,' says he; 'there's a man running a shack two mile up the river.'

Instead, he selected a shack stumbling with age on the west slope of the Eagle Mountains.

"Yonder's McFluke's," he added, nodding toward two gray-brown log and shake shacks and a stockaded corral roosting on the high ground beyond the belt of cottonwoods and willows marking the course of the Lazy.

A ways down the valley I spotted a little shack sitting all alone by itself out in the moonlight.

Otherwise his eyes might have failed to distinguish the outlines, but under her guidance he could make out enough of its general form to assure him that they were approaching no mere fisherman's shack.

He squatted on a small piece of land, gathered a little herd, and, having thrown up a four-room shack, he and Caroline lived as happily as king and queen.

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

"In case you've forgotten," said Elephant, "your troops have just burned up that little shack.

"I could uh cleaned the blamed shack up so it would look like folks was living hereand I woulda, if I didn't have to set all day and toggle up the places in my clothes"Billy muttered incoherently over a knot in his thread.

Emett had already constructed a shack for the hounds.

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.