He was a little insignificantrunt with a glass eye, and the tip of his olfactory organ betokened more than a speaking acquaintance with beverages of an alcoholic nature.
Buys the Bar X, a little runt of a ranch what backs up against the lava fields.
I crossed a uniform red male runt with a white trumpeter; and the offspring had a slaty-blue tail, with a bar at the end, and with the outer feathers edged with white.
The skin over the nostrils is swollen, but not carunculated; the naked skin round the eyes is not very wide, and only slightly carunculated; and I have seen a fine so-called Spanish Runt with hardly any naked skin round the eyes.
Ike, as if nothing had happened, addressing himself to a runt of a man, who looked as if he had been on short feed, and who had strayed on the jury no one knew how.
The Puddleford fag-end had a runt of a lion, who was very evidently on his last legs; for he had been travelled until his hair was worn entirely off, and his spirits exhausted.
If any man came back into that town-house thinkin' I was a lunatic on account of what happened to-day, they got a diff'runt notion before I got done.
What the hell was this idea that could keep a little runt of a working-man stronger than all in authority?
Was one obscure little runt of a Socialist machinist to be allowed to block their world-plans?
I told that boy to be careful of the hole in the bag, that the runt might fall through it, and so he did.
The bag had had a merciful hole, and he, being the runt of the family, had fallen through before the proposed drowning came off.
Bout dat time a little runt elbow and butt his way right up to de front and say: 'Marse Henry, Marse Henry!
De little runt laugh mighty pleased and some of them Fernandezes 'round here to dis day.
He was a bony runt of about eighteen, with bulging eyes and a wide mouth that was always turned down at the corners.
As an evidence of victory, however, when the cattle struck a foothold, Runt and each of his men mounted a beef and rode out of the water some distance.
It seems that on approaching Beaver Creek, Owen Ubery and Runt Pickett had ridden across to it for the purpose of trout-fishing.
We were a trifle short-handed the second day, and on my guest volunteering to help, I assigned him to Runt Pickett's place at the fire, where he shortly developed a healthy sweat.
Runt was comfortably drunk, and as Bob urged humoring him, I gave my consent, provided he would place it all at one bet, to which Pickett agreed.
Runt Pickett was detailed to look especially after those two, and the little rascal nursed and toyed and played with them like a circus rider.
They struggled constantly for the inshore, but Runt rode their rumps alternately, the displacement lifting their heads out of the water to good advantage.
When westward of and opposite the ranch, Runt Pickett was sent in for any necessary orders that might be waiting.
Several trail stories of more or less interest were told, when Runt Pickett, in order to avoid the smoke, came over and sat down between Burl Van Vedder and me.
Runt Pickett, wearing a skirt made out of a blanket and belted with a hobble, won the admiration of all as the only living lady lion-tamer.
But when my outfit was ready to start, Runt Pickett, the feisty little rascal, had about twenty dollars in his possession which he insisted on gambling away before leaving town.
From our position on the bank, we shouted to Runt to dip his drag cattle in swift water; but amid the din and splash of the struggling swimmers our messages failed to reach his ears.
Again he won, and we went the length of the street, Runt wagering nineteen dollars alce on the first card for ten consecutive times without losing a bet.
Forrest and I had quit the water after the fourth trip; but Quince had a man named De Manse, a Frenchman, who swam like a wharf-rat and who stayed to the finish, while I turned my crew over to Runt Pickett.
They show him the pictures and quote prices on the hoof--which are low, but look what even a runt of a yearling whale that was calved late in the fall would weigh on the scales!
I said if there was a mite of financial prowess in the bunch they would start the price on them runt mules at one hundred dollars flat, because it was certain that Safety had struck the skids.
That would avert embarrassing situations, for whatever his friends might think, he, the Great Big Man, was a runt in stature only.
Their flavour is very good; and it is not an uncommon thing for a squeaker Runt to exceed a pound and a quarter in weight.
One of the great advantages connected with the Runt is, that he is not likely to fly away from home.
The Runt was listening, his eyes strained toward the stairs.
Inspector Clayton caught Jimmie Dale and the Runt by the collars.
It was Stace Morse who had murdered Metzer, the Runt had said.
The Runt pulled down one eyelid, and, with his knowing grin, the cigarette, clinging to his upper lip, sagged down in the opposite corner of his mouth.
