It's scorchin' hot an' barrin' a dead burro thar's hardly anybody in sight.
One of the ponies had developed lameness; and a burro wandered away and Pedro had to spend half a day searching for him.
Cause a burro don't never git out of a walk if he kin help it.
Wait till you hear a love-lorn burrosinging to his mate.
But the cavalcade waited for Pedro and the burros to overtake them; then the load on one burro was transferred to the ponies and the pelt and as much of the bear meat as they could make use of in such warm weather was put upon the burro.
At the third shot the Papago shrieked and tumbled off his burroto fall in a heap.
Then with gentle slaps he drove his burro in behind Cameron.
I bought a burro at Green River," Katz went on, "but lost him twenty miles to the south.
I have a friend who will be along sometime tomorrow with a couple of light tents and a couple of burro loads of provisions.
If the golden trail promises to lead us too far, we'll hide the machines somewhere and go over some of it on foot:" The man with the burro and the leaky ore bag had naturally hunted for the easiest way through the hills.
At such times the hoofmarks of the burro served as a guide.
Frank had been noticing for several minutes that the single set ofburro tracks had grown into a veritable clutter of hoofprints.
Only one horse and a burro were found, and the horse showed no evidence of recent hard riding.
The better part of his income was derived from the sale of water, brought up from his well by burro power, to prospectors and others who happened along that way.
Memories of past disaster had taught him the value of caution that a younger, less experienced burro might have failed to observe.
The stone courtyard of the inn rang with the shouts of burro drivers, the quarrels of peons intent on selling their wares to travelers at the best prices, and the threats and commands of General Herran and his officers.
I tell you I'll have a burro load of your pills, doctor!
Unfortunately, the burro who had the honor of carrying "El Rey" was so unappreciative of his rider's eloquence that he allowed himself to be jostled into too close proximity with the bearers of the flag.
As if in denial of the comparison, one of the burros standing near the doorway stiffened out his forefeet and brayed with all the vehemence of which burro lungs are capable.
He had parted with his blacking box and in place of it, hanging from his neck, was a rusty old sword that clanked dismally on the scarred and battered ribs of the solemn burro upon which he was mounted.
Oh, I'll take a burro loaded with the doctor's pills along with me," said David.
Pedro, attempting as courteous a greeting as his burro would allow.
Their little capitan, who rode on a burro and talked peon very much, said we belonged to them, and Colombia depended on us.
Returning from picketing the burro he chanced to glance at the skyline summit of the moraine.
As the camper went on with his burro he noticed the bear watching him from among trees across a little glacier meadow.
A stray burro meandered about, and finally came to a stop in the middle of the street, where he stood, stoically enduring the sun, a veritable long-eared statue of dejection.
A stray burro crossed the street and nosed among some weeds.
We took the burro over to a clump of pine woods an' turned him loose, an' then I crawled in through the tunnel to Slocum's fire.
I told him that I agreed with him to such an extent that if I could locate the burro I'd rather risk gettin' back to humanity than to dyin' there of rheumatiz.
My burro was fat, an' the clump of pine trees had mostly disappeared.
When we saw the man beating the little burro she cried out to me: "Make the brute stop!
The burro uttered the strangest sound I ever heard issue from any beast and it dropped in its tracks with jerking legs that told any horseman what had happened.
They were in high glee over the predicament of one ruffian who had purchased or been given a poor, emaciated little burro that was on his last legs.
The burro evidently did not want to go with its new owner, who pulled on a halter and then viciously swung the end of the rope to make welts on the worn and scarred back.
As before, they rode down the mountain, then left their horses and the burro at the rough thatched shed where their car was stored.
At the sound of Florence's voice the lazy burro promptly stopped, and the man stood peering at them from under his big sombrero.
Years past, they had packed burro trains into the Mountain Rancheria area in search of gold and silver.
Then, lifting his godson into the packsaddle, he lashed him in securely; after which he took his open pocket knife in hand and prodded the jaded burro until it consented to move away across the desert at a crawling, shuffling gait.
When Bob Sangster opened his eyes he found himself leaning against a trembling old white burro with a pack on his back.
Here, in the shadow of this black lava, he had found a burro waiting!
He gazed at the pitiable little animal, the while his memory strove to recall some other incident in which a burro had figured.
His strength had, in a measure, returned after drinking the canned tomatoes, and he fancied that the burro too seemed rejuvenated.
This burro was dying and useless; there was no water bag---- And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem.
The burro was almost spent, and time and again he balked and groaned a feeble protest He welcomed the occasions when the godfather's weak clasp of the packsaddle was broken and he fell headlong to earth.
He did not lean at all heavily upon her, however, and he merely glanced toward the burro as the pair walked to the stable door.
On his part theburro was fortunately silent, though his great, dark eyes looked volumes of affection, and he laid his big ears gently back to be out of Amy's way, while she caressed him.
Bony" was much impressed by Amy's stratagem of walking ahead of the burro with the lump of sugar held temptingly just beyond reach.
The burro rigidly planted her forefeet in the dust and sorrowfully dropped her head.
Shaking her body viciously, but unable to rid herself of her brilliant burden, the burro started swiftly along the footpath running toward the distant buildings, and over the little bridge that crossed just there.
Mr. Metcalf invited Amy into the house, while he led the burro around to the little stable in the rear, which was to be Pepita's new home.
Lafayette, and gave the unprepared burro a sharp prod with a stick he held.
Wouldn't I come, too, if I were just a burro and were set free to follow my own will?
So, Miss Amy, though you hated to part with your burro for money, you would do so willingly for love and sympathy?
Fayette gave her one more angry glance, leaped from his saddle with a jerk, and bestowed upon the unoffending burro a vicious kick.
They won the burro pennant honestly, if not easily, daylight being plainly visible between their foam-crested crupper and the panting nostrils of the Vanderbilts.
From an itinerant curse peddler, trotting about on a spavined burro and resorting to the methods of the mountebank to create a market for his merchandise, it has become a vast commercial concern with costly establishments in every country.
His burro balked and Balaam told his fellow travelers that an angel was interfering with his transportation facilities.
When the priest of Baal was en route to Moab's capital for cursing purposes an angel tried to withhold him, and even hisburro rebuked him, but neither angels nor asses are exempt from the law of evolution.
He seized the gad which the mozo had dropped, climbed upon the lightest laden burro and, driving the others before him, set off for Chuckwalla Tanks.
And he couldn't have arrived in Goldfield with a burro train in less than six weeks.
The Burro express crawled away up the valley and we set out for the ranch, Johnson riding close to the buckboard, the better to converse with Mrs. Vining.
And the Burro express bore Mrs. Vining away, the conductor winking at Lafe from the platform of the last car, his countenance sad and composed.
It was called that by the sparse population of the region in a spirit of levity: a burro will pause to graze on the least excuse and takes joy in lying down with his pack.
With these directions, Mrs. Horn sent Johnson to The Tanks to meet theBurro express.
Also she makes such a quick packing that she is driving her burro out to the trail before the Red Cabeza comes to his senses.
Of his own strength he threw a burro off the trail into the Barranca and so turned the train that would otherwise have driven him and the 'Red Head' into the canon.
But his rising pride did not attain its meridian until, midway of the following afternoon, a pretty brown girl came driving a burro up the trail.
Driving her burroover to the stable she unpacked a stone metate, or grinding-stone, a pestle, and a quantity of soaked corn.
As Seyd also braced himself for the shock there came the scratch of a match, and Billy's red head flashed out in relief against the belly of the leading burro as it upreared in fright at the blaze.
The answer was lost in the sudden braying of a burro in the stables underneath, but the voice of the questioner, a strident tenor, rose over all.
He owns the Colonel Dodge's interest in the Lost Burro Mining Company now.
There's a whole lot of water in the workings of the Lost Burro that'll have to be pumped out first, and then there's a little job of timbering that'll cost a world of money.
Undoubtedly it was the buyer of the Lost Burro Mine, with a party of "experts" and potential backers who had come up to look over the ground; yet something told Denver that there was more behind it all.
We've been looking at the Lost Burro and one of the gentlemen suggested that it might be well to enlarge our property.
That's the site of the celebrated Lost Burro Mine--turned out over four millions in silver!
Of course it's all right, if you think gold is the ticket, but you wait till I show you this claim of mine--next to the famous Lost Burro Mine.
I'm your neighbor here on the south--we've taken over the Lost Burro property.
A party came up yesterday and took one look at it and grabbed it right off the bat, and as soon as old Murray gets in to his ore they're going to capitalize the Burro for a million.
A prospector that was camping here went up on that little hill to rock his old burro back to camp and right on top he found a piece of silver that was so pure you could cut it with your knife.
