Turning abruptly, he entered the corral and saddled Ramon's horse and his own.
Back in Pedro Salazar's corral a man lay huddled in a dim corner, his sightless eyes open to the soft radiance of the Sonora moon.
At the corral he delivered Vaca's message to Waring, who feigned delight at the other's information.
A horse in the corral answered, nickering shrilly.
As he passed thecorral a greeting came from the darkness:-- "Good-evening!
Shoop had found the dog as it crawled along the corral fence, trying to get to the cabin.
Ramon, too weary to expostulate, followed the assistant to a corral back of the building.
While the clerk stood up on the fence with his list he repeated the names and the number of cattle to which each Indian was entitled, and men inside the corral opened the gate and drove them out.
They then saw Kit at the corral gate waving frantically to them.
The ponies had scattered, and the corral was empty.
As Ted rode up to the corral fence he looked through the bars, then started back in surprise with an exclamation.
After maneuvering around the corral several times, Ted managed to dodge the flying hoofs long enough to slip the saddle and tie the latigo.
But one brother does not steal the ponies from the corral of the other.
The little horse gave a leap like a kangaroo, and dashed through the gateway of the corral and across the white prairie, running like a quarter horse.
A clerk from the Indian agent's office was sitting on top of the fence of the cattle corral reading the names of the Indians from a large book.
As we started away from the ranch house I heard Bud say to Stella, 'When the gang came out of the corral just before daylight I saw that most of them headed into the west.
In the corral a great commotion was taking place, to judge from the noise that came to them.
Taking advantage of the situation, the pony trotted past Ted, who scarcely gave it a look, and went on to the corral back of the house.
So eager were the boys to be off that they fairly bolted their food, and rushed to the corral to saddle their cayuses.
The end of it was that both Sam and Curly went down to the corral and saddled their ponies.
In less than half an hour three shadowy figures slipped round the edge of the corral and up the lane.
Mothers kinder herded their young folks in a corral when he slung his smile their way.
The man who had owned the feed corral had sold out and gone to Colorado.
A thousand pair of eyes in the grandstand watched the boy as he lounged against the corral fence laughing and talking with his friends.
Before anyone could say a word to stop them they were going through with that identical corral quarrel.
A steer had escaped from thecorral and was galloping down the track in front of the grandstand with its tail up.
By this time our horses had learned to corralpretty quick, and when they were in gunshot we opened fire on them.
I left the Indians and rode inside of the corral and told the people that these were peaceable Indians and were all friends of mine, and that I wanted every man, woman and child to come out and shake hands with them.
This being agreeable, the day following the horses were driven into the corraland I selected my six.
Within two hours after the exciting scene at the corral the Indians in every band knew that McPhail had launched his ultimatum at the little village of White Wolf.
Out in the corral in disciplined silence the troopers were promptly mustering and forming line.
Thirty men can defend the corral and out-houses and the front of the agency.
Cranston happened to ride by the corral ten minutes later and caught sight of the pale, fine-featured face, whose-eyes looked up at him wistfully, imploringly.
Over the moonlit sweep of snow the watchers at the corral saw the coming throng, a moving mass, black and ominous as the storm-cloud.
Then Cranston and the other troop leaders got to working down toward the agency and, during the rests, moving close up to the corral and watching the riding-school.
Some of the guard had darted into the corral for their arms, others, unarmed, had pressed to the support of the agent.
A third game is to place across the entrance to a corral or other enclosure a bar about as high as a horse’s head.
From thecorral Sorry and Jim came walking up the path to meet the wagon which was making straight for the bunkhouse instead of going first to the stable.
At the corral he came unexpectedly in sight of the Swede, who grinned a guileless welcome and came toward him, so that Lone could not ride on unless he would advertise his dislike of the place.
Twice he had driven to Echo since her father had been hurt, and each time he had stopped at the corral on his way to the house.
John Doe was streaked with sweat and his flanks were palpitating with fatigue when Lone rode up to the corral and dismounted.
Later she saw two tiny, glowing points down by the corral and knew that Sorry and Jim were down there, waiting and listening, ready to do whatever was needed of them; although what that would be she could not even conjecture.
She could save a few minutes, she thought, by running down to the corral where Frank would probably stop and unload the few sacks of grain he was bringing, before he drove up to the house.
I've supposed all along them Mexican cattle thieves had a hidden corralsomewhar in this country; but nobody has ever found it yet.
She had passed along that way toward the bridge that afternoon, yet now she could remember little, except piles of discarded tin cans, a few scattered tents, and a cattle corral on the summit of the ridge.
We all stood by and watched admiringly while Fuchs rode into the corral with a pitchfork and prodded the bulls again and again, finally driving them apart.
The cattle in thecorral ate corn almost as fast as the men could shell it for them, and we hoped they would be ready for an early market.
That snake hung on our corral fence for several days; some of the neighbors came to see it and agreed that it was the biggest rattler ever killed in those parts.
Their mother came to the door with us, and we tarried for a moment to look out at the white slope of the corral and the two ponds asleep in the moonlight, and the long sweep of the pasture under the star-sprinkled sky.
Billy Carew and the other cowboys came in the next morning with the steers, which were turned into a corral for branding purposes.
Yes, they're roped and in the corral now, all right.
He told the squad to just leave it to Hicks, so don't be surprised if he is making flying trips to Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, striving to corral some embryo Ted Coy.
So where Thor originated or how under the sun Hicks got on his trail, after making his rash vow to corral a mighty fullback, is a deep, dark mystery.
That snake hung on our corral fence for several days; some of the neighbours came to see it and agreed that it was the biggest rattler ever killed in those parts.
We had just formed the last semi-circle of our nooncorral and through its western opening was seen the Chimney, wavy through the haze that arose from the heated ground.
But for once, to those assembled within thecorral centre, O, how too long seemed the hymn, and even the prayer!
Breakfast, and all hurry off tocorral without even any explanation--just a few casual words, from which I understand that we shall not go.
Instead they all go once more to the corral to continue the work until about 11 p.
All are already at the corral some distance over the hill, branding, counting, etc.
It is my impression that we captured a young buffalo out of the small herd, which we placed in a corral found in that vicinity.
But he dwelt particularly upon the fact that the Cheyennes always kept their ponies in a corral which was in the very center of their village.
The buffalo was then left in the ranchman's corral with the understanding that he would see it was well fed and watered.
In a few years our flocks had increased, so that we built a corraland shed a mile and a half away, where we kept our band of wethers and a herder.
The first summer I had a temporary sheep corral about where the West Side schoolhouse now stands.
I remember on one occasion I had brought in a carload of valuable breeding sheep and quartered them for the night in the corral of the livery stable across the street from the hotel, run then by S.
The wagons were formed in a circle, to corral the horses and mules nights for fear of an attack by the Indians; each one taking turns as sentinel.
The shepherd heard two outside the corral on one occasion, and giving chase the puma ascended a small tree.
His accurate knowledge of the country made his statement credible, and he also showed me a sort of corral that had been made to enclose the wild animals.
Hinchel, myself, and many of the Araucanians had remained away; and I was proceeding to look up the horses, when I was called to the corral by some of the Picunches.
Round this corral were grouped the Indians of Cheoeque's tribe, and the Picunches with fruit, &c.
When the cattle are driven into this corralor pen, each driver yokes his oxen, drives them out to his wagon, and gets ready to start.
Sometimes an entire train would be stricken and the captain would be compelled to corral the wagons until aid could be obtained from other caravans on the desert, then so called, or the teamsters recovered to continue the journey.
I remember once of timing my teamsters when they commenced to yoke their teams after the cattle had been driven into their corral and allowed to stand long enough to become quiet.
He dismounted and led his pony to a small corral and then returned to the porch, carrying his saddle.
About noon Leviatt and Tucson rode in to the Two Diamond corral gate, dismounted from their ponies, and proceeded to the bunkhouse for dinner.
Before he reached it he saw Leviatt unsaddling at thecorral gate.
Half a mile down the river she could see a corner of Ben's cabin, a section of the corral fence, and one of the small outbuildings.
Stafford smiled coldly and was about to answer when he saw Ferguson dropping from his pony at the corral gate.
Ferguson smiled grimly as he rode his pony to the corral gate, dismounted, pulled off the bridle and saddle, and turned the animal into the corral.
For an instant after the young man had left the porch to turn his pony into the corral Ferguson had kept his seat on the porch.
And instead of lugging his saddle to its accustomed peg in the lean-to, he threw it over the corral fence and left it.
There was a small corral near the cabin, in which there were several steers, half a dozen cows, and perhaps twenty calves.
The proof of guilt was before the Two Diamond men, in the shape of several calves in the small corral that still bore the Two Diamond brand.
The following morning Stafford came upon Rope while the latter was throwing the saddle on his pony down at the corral gate.
He went to the corral fence, unhitched his pony, and rode out on the plains toward the river.
A little over an hour after his departure from the hill, Ferguson rode up to the Two Diamond corral gate and dismounted.
The Havens lived on the outskirts of Silver Run, and the road to the mines passed by their corral fence.
Dig, who never went anywhere on foot if he could help it, brought his black horse, Poke, and all his outfit over to the Havens corral that evening.
If he does, I know he'd scare a corral full of ponies into fits!
The presence of the ponies made him snort and toss his mane; and in the corral he would doubtless have tried to bite them.
He and Dig had practised so much in the corral at home that Chet had really become wonderfully expert.
Dissension was rife in the Legitimist camp, Guardiola and Corral quarrelling for the supreme command.
Corral lay with the main body of the Legitimist army at Rivas, keeping, through his scouts and spies, a close watch on the movements of his enemy.
Corral was massing his forces at Rivas, hoping, yet fearing, to meet his enemy on the Transit road.
Corral had been completely outgeneralled, nobody but Walker himself and his trusted aids, Valle and Hornsby, having been acquainted with the object of the expedition when it set out from Virgin Bay.
Corral died at the appointed hour, and the lesson was not wholly lost upon his accomplices.
The Legitimists under Corral and His Hondureno ally, Guardiola, were drawing close to Leon.
To meet Corral and his forces, Munoz went forth with six hundred men, and a sharp engagement occurred at Sauce, in which the enemy was repulsed, but Munoz was slain.
Handsome Corral was the darling of the Granadinos.
Corral fancied that he had his foes in a trap, and he accordingly devoted all his efforts to prevent their retreat to San Juan, as well as to cut off reinforcements from California.
That impartial justice governed the action of Walker is evident from an incident which occurred on the very day on which Corral was inditing his treason to Xatruch and Guardiola.
Corral at once agreed to treat for peace, and a meeting between him and Walker was arranged to take place at Granada on the 23rd of October.
In the centre of this corral a rifle pit was dug, large enough to hold all their people, and in this way they were protected from shots fired at them from either side of the valley.
In this way an effective corral for the animals was provided within.
While it was still dark, the finest mules in the corral were saddled and brought round.
Round the yard cluster the huts of the Indians, the corral for the mules, stables and what not.
But the great advantage was that it possessed a small paddock, rankly overgrown with shrubs and grass, which would serve as an excellent corral for our horses.
Then close under the foot of the slope he espied two squat stone houses with red roofs, and a corral with a pool of water shining in the sun.
Quick thuds of hoofs in sand drew Shefford's attention to a corral made of peeled poles, and here he saw another pony.
The Indian girl left her pony in the corral and came like a shadow toward the house.
So one of the first things he did after our arrival was to drag out an old dried hide and hang it on a fence in the corral and asked me to shoot an arrow through it.
That evening we asked the rancher to lock his goats in the corral till noon.
One of the structures we saw here was called the dog-corral and was a big enclosure built of logs.
The dog-corral is used to put the sleighs in when the freighter arrives, and the dogs are left outside, to keep them away from the provisions.
