Taking one of the rawhide ropes he started toward the brook to quench his thirst.
His alert eye caught sight of a rawhide rope staked to the water's brink, which led away toward a small round hut in the distance.
Thus he skipped confidently along jerking the old weather-eaten rawhide spasmodically till all of a sudden it gave way and Manstin fell headlong into the water.
The ground was trodden into a deep groove beneath the loosely drawn rawhide rope.
I also conveyed thither a long coil of rawhide rope which I had previously discovered in the boot of the coach.
Then, with a rawhide rope, we bound them together in a rough but secure net-work of cordage.
They carried bundles of green willows, dozens of large hard-head boulders and rawhide receptacles filled with water; also a bundle of dry faggots.
The travaux consisted of a set of rawhide strips securely lashed to the tent-poles, which were harnessed to the sides of the animal as if he stood between shafts, while the free ends were allowed to drag on the ground.
She has been taught the art of painting tents and rawhide cases, and the manufacture of garments of all kinds.
Some of it was pulverized and packed in rawhide cases.
She has a bone tool for each stage of the conversion of the stiffrawhide into velvety leather.
This cloth winding serves its purpose well, but in a country where wet snows are common its use is not advised, for the cloth holds the dampness and causes the rawhide to rot.
A strand of the water-soaked rawhide is stretched tightly around the inside of the toe portion through the little gimlet holes, as shown in figure five, starting and finishing at one of the holes in the forward crossbar.
From this loop the rawhide strand twists back about an inch, then runs straight across the shoe to the right, where the loop is repeated.
But a twine filling is not nearly as good as rawhide and is used only because it is a more convenient material.
The last touch is to wind a strand of rawhide about the twisted thongs on each side of the foot opening and around the toe cord, to make these parts smooth and protect them from wear.
The tail should be fastened with rawhide, counter-sunk, and not a screw or rivet; and the filling throughout should be of good rawhide thoroughly stretched, rather fine and close in the ends and coarse and open in the centers.
One has a pointed, upturned toe, the frame being made in two pieces, fastened together with rawhide at heel and toe.
Merwin, a ranchman in brown duck, with a contemplative eye, sat with his feet upon a table, plaiting a rawhide quirt.
This throw was fair; the white cow came to earth again; and before it could rise Santa had made the lasso fast around a post of the corral with a swift and simple knot, and had leaped upon the cow again with the rawhide hobbles.
Ten yards from his hiding-place, in the shade of the /jacal/, sat his Tonia calmly plaiting a rawhide lariat.
Mr. Buck, being unable to reckon exactly the number of lashes to which Little Lizay was entitled, gave the rawhide the benefit of any doubt and ordered Alston to administer seventy-five lashes.
The dog, the bomb and a stout rawhide string, with which to tether the bomb to the dog, were confidingly placed in the hands of a small boy in the neighborhood, known to have both a sense of humor and a taste for the mischievous.
A Colfax of St. Louis in butternuts and rawhide boots?
In the morning he had walked into the country, first providing himself with butternuts and rawhide boots and a bowie-knife.
Chad had cut off therawhide string, but the Sheriff caught Jack by the nape of the neck.
With one mighty bound the dog snatched the rawhide string from the careless Sheriff's hand, and in a moment, with his nose to the ground, was speeding up toward the woods.
Bent and stiff--that means every muscle is like a rawhide riata.
An' I'll bet a million steers to a rawhide rope thet next he'll be throwin' a gun as good as Nels.
Hatton and his party were corralled yesterday beyond Rawhide Butte.
Turning the hide back like a stocking, he had tight-laced up both ends, and, filling the hide full of water through the opening of one of the front legs, closed it by tying a rawhide thong around it.
Some would lie down; then the stinging rawhideend of a lariat would be snapped at them and strike unerringly where the vaquero intended it to.
Morgan's poor hope for release from present torture and impending death now rested in the breaking of the rawhide rope where it had been weakened by that one desperate slash of the knife.
He turned, wallowing in the shallow water to soak the rawhide rope, which was already growing soft, the pressure and pain of it considerably eased on his arms.
Those pieces of rope that were used to tie that man to the stakes--they were cut from a rawhide lariat.
I took a rawhide lariat, which I found attached to the saddle on the old white horse, and used it to tie my brother's ankles and wrists to tent-stakes which I took from my automobile.
The half-breed testified that he had been looking for a rawhide lariat which he thought he had dropped from his saddle somewhere along the Dollar Sign road the day before.
Shane and McClintock and me mounted our mules and rode across the rawhide bridge just as the Peches reached the other side and began firing stones and long knives at us.
But one afternoon McClintock led the other mules and myself over a rawhide bridge stretched across a precipice five thousand feet deep, it seemed to me.
So be rose from his place and reached for a rawhide whip.
He struck at them with a rawhide whip, and spurred his horse savagely at every little clump of men disposed to air their own views.
Sinew, catgut, and rawhide strings were used by the early archers, but have been abandoned by the more modern.
The little red yew bow used in the previous experiment was backed heavily with rawhideand catgut.
The rawhide utilized for this purpose is known to tanners as clarified calfskin.
We were trained down to rawhide and sinew, keyed to alertness and ready for any emergency.
In our experiments with a catgut and rawhide backing, we have not found that they add materially to the cast of a bow, only insure it against fracture.
To these every day came Hardy with his rawhide reata.
He stepped out and held Pinto by the head, and Kitty dropped off and sank wearily into a rawhide chair.
True indeed, his hands were like burnt rawhide from gripping at ropes and irons, his clothes were greasy and his boots smelled of the corral, and yet--she had given him a kiss!
There was a broad leather blind on the hacamore, which was of the best plaited rawhide with a horsehair tie rope, but the little man did not take advantage of it to subdue his mount.
Once the plaited rawhide was wetted it would twist and bind in the honda and before Creede could beat it straight and coil it his partner would be far out in the centre of the vortex.
A strip of rawhide leather, a limber willow branch, or a strip of hickory put through the auger hole of the door and wedged into the hole in the jamb, makes a truly wild-wood hinge.
The window opening may be closed with a glass sash, with a piece of muslin, or with the rawhide of an animal, scraped clear of hair and stretched on a frame.
Silently the rough door swung back on its rawhide hinges and ten men, with a revolver in each hand, filed quietly in.
As he rode Larkin worked his arms cautiously back and forth until he felt the rotten rawhide give, and knew that a single violent motion would free him entirely.
Suddenly Larkin felt a hand fumbling with the rawhide about his arms, and a low voice in his ear whispered: "Now.
He was hanging by the wrists to a rawhide rope; his toes were lightly touching the earth.
Floreal strained until the rawhide thongs cut into his wrists, his bare, yellow toes gripping the hard earth like the claws of a cat until he seemed about to spring.
I found it so much better than eating rawhide that I ceased asking the emigrants I met for either a cup or bread.
The blacksmith fitted a shoe and nailed it on, driving the nails through the rawhide which now formed the outer crust of the hoof.
So in the morning I obtained a suitable piece of rawhide from a Mexican, took the horse to a blacksmith who put some tallow and burnt horn into the opening of the hoof, then seared it with a hot iron.
As he sometimes remarks, "rawhide makes a strong tie.
There was a set of harness and an old pack saddle covered with rawhide still on hand, that some of the boys considered safe to depend upon for a few days, still we had great hopes of getting something better.
I then took therawhide and fitted it nicely over the whole hoof, lacing it behind and underneath.
