The thing had been so fiendishly cold-blooded and calculating that it made his blood boil, for it was perfectly evident now to Buck that he had thwarted a deliberate plot to introduce the blackleg scourge among the Shoe-Bar cattle.
When Buck told about the blackleg incident his face darkened and he spoke for the first time.
Having been through one blackleg epidemic back in Texas, he knew the signs only too well.
He wished that he had taken Jessup into his confidence about the blackleg plot, but there was no time for that now.
But they'd be ashamed to blackleg if once they were got into the union," persisted Nellie.
It will take no note of the young fellow that plays cards for a prize; it waits until he becomes a blackleg gambler and then it slams the door in his face.
The blackleg took the box, and rattled the dice in it, gazing upon us with a ghastly smile, and then deliberately replaced the box on the table, mouth upwards.
She brings this blackleg lover of hers into the house--into Sydney's house--under false colours.
At about the center of the clearing Blackleg came to a jarring, dizzying stop, rearing high on his hind legs.
Blackleg could do it; he would make him do it, if he killed him in the end.
Calumet guided Blackleg toward the spot where he had seen the rider, certain that he could not have gone far during the interval that had elapsed, but when he reached the spot there was no sign of a horse and rider in any direction.
He fought it out and took a long time to it, but he finally pulled the saddle from Blackleg and hitched the two horses to the wagon.
He was saddling Blacklegafter breakfast, intending to go down the river a short distance, when he became aware that Betty was standing near him.
After staking Blackleg out, he took the saddle and bridle from the animal and stalked toward the ranchhouse.
He wheeled Blackleg and, with glowering eyes and straightened lips, rode him back the way he had come, halting often and peering into shadows.
Calumet determined to cut across the country and intercept him, and he drove the spurs into Blackleg and raced him through the wood.
Then, swinging into his own saddle, he urged Blackleg after her, for she had not waited for him, riding down past the ranchhouse and out into the little stretch of plain that reached to the river.
Then, ridingBlackleg and leading the other horse, she went toward the Lazy Y.
At the risk of danger from the black's hoofs she urged Blackleg forward to a more advantageous position.
I knew my chum had been a rollicking sort of fellow, who found it hard to say No to anybody who asked anything of him; but that he was a blackleg I, for one, would not believe, for all the Dravens in the world.
He was a broken gamester and a criminal exile by all the signs and by the verdict of the law; but whether or not he was a blackleg was a matter of opinion and the exact definition of that word.
One of the most effective methods for freeing an infected pasture from blackleg is to allow the grass to grow high, and when sufficiently dry to burn it off.
Immunization against blackleg is now frequently accomplished by the use of the so-called blackleg aggressin and blackleg filtrates.
Later they devised a method of inoculation with the attenuated or weakened blackleg spores which produced immunity from natural or artificial inoculation of virulent blackleg germs.
The blood of animals dead of blackleg is normal, and the spleen does not appear swollen or darkened, as in those affected with anthrax.
The immunity conferred in this way may last for 18 months, but animals vaccinated before they are 6 months old and those in badly infected districts should be revaccinated before the following blackleg season.
This fact may account for the occasional appearance of blackleg in stables.
Like anthrax, blackleg is more or less restricted to definite localities.
Three French veterinarians, Arloing, Cornevin, and Thomas, were the first to discover that cattle may be protected against blackleg by inoculation with virulent material obtained from animals which have died of this disease.
The anthrax carbuncles and swellings differ from the blackleg swellings in not containing gas, in being hard and solid, and in causing death less rapidly.
The widow is still a widow, and the children, who you tell me number seven, are orphans; and surely at his death a man ceases to be either a blackleg or a trades unionist.
Sometimes a blackleg keeper, not satisfied with the plunder of the estate under his guardianship must needs encroach on the lands of neighbouring farmers occupying under small owners; and so further ill-will is caused.
With such accounts as these, supported by what looks like evidence, the blackleg keeper gradually works his employer into a state of intense irritation, meantime reaping the reward of the incorruptible guardian and shrewd upright servitor.
Then they sell it to the blackleg Boers, and you've got to raise your voice like an advocate to get it back somehow.
Couldn't say exactly when, for some rascally blackleg Boers, who had been corrupting his Kaffirs and slipped up country with a pile of stones, had first to be followed and caught.
Blackleg though the fellow be, he's got game in him.
Blackleg though he be, he possesses courage--perhaps the only quality he has deserving of admiration.
None of the birds sang except one little blackleg Robin, who sang so hard in his efforts to make up for the rest that he was as hoarse as a crow the next morning.
Our President also has a seat on the committee, and I think that as time goes on we may be able to do some good by preventing Labour Exchanges being used to import blackleglabour in time of disputes.
I contend we have, and have done more for the improvement of the working classes than all the blackleg crew from Suffolk or any other county.
You've no right this side of the Murrumbidgee, if it comes to that; and I'd make one of a crowd to start you back where you come from, and all your blackleg lot.
It's a conspiracy hatched up to block Delegate Stoate's evidence agin thatblackleg Hardwick.
We'll burn their bloomin' boat, and have roastblackleg for breakfast.
You heard them say I was the mistress of a common blackleg gambler, and did not resent it.
It was too much of a temptation for Blount and his jumpers, and blackleglawyers with fake claims.
In fact, the case is called already and lost by default if I know that blackleg lawyer of mine.
The blacklegwould sell the tomb off his father's grave," he mused, brushing the ashes from his clothes.
McQuade, you're as fine a blackleg as ever graced a prison," said Warrington.
