At the head of the washout I spied some yellow long-horned Texas cattle, and gave them a wide berth.
The Commissioner here has a map of these thoroughfares showing each washout and just where each lamp is located.
Evidently the lead elephant had wandered into the washout and lost his footing.
At that point Billy Louise startled herself and the others by suddenly laughing out loud at the memory of one time when Ward Warren had killed enough Indians to fill a deep washout so that he might carry her across to the other side!
It is possible that she might also show you the washout which always made her and Ward laugh when they passed it.
And she had the doubtful satisfaction of seeing him doubled over the saddle-horn in a paroxysm of laughter when she led him to the historical washout and recounted the feat of the dead Indians with which he had made a safe passing for her.
It was terribly silly, but she simply could not help seeing Ward Warren calmly filling thatwashout with dead Indians so that he might carry her across it in his arms.
That's to pay you back for jumping that washout when I wasn't looking.
They jumped a washout that the cattle went into and out of with great lunges, farther down toward its mouth.
On rounding the corner of a small washout he almost ran over a bear which was feeding on the carcass of a steer that had died in an alkali hole.
The washout was fresh, and he was counting on the chance that they were not aware of its existence.
It was a mile or more to the washout in the road, but the excitement made him keen for the test.
His whole soul was enveloped in the hope that the washout had trapped the robbers.
The hopper closet bowl, which was nothing more than a funnel-shaped bowl placed on top of a trap, was placed in competition with thewashout bowl.
When thewashout bowl was introduced it was considered perfection.
When he was far enough up the flat to lose track of our movements we dropped into a convenient washout and sneaked along it to the foot of the bank, where a jutting point of rock hid sight of us climbing the hill.
The automobile had disappeared as the road circled behind a hill, but the watchers well knew that if it did not meet with disaster it would soon reappear above the washout and then be unable to stop because of the steep descent.
If it ever starts on that down grade toward the washout there is going to be a tragedy.
This itinerary is published in these pages in its original form, and while the route was adhered to it will be noticed we ran about three days late, delayed by a washout east of El Paso.
Accompanied Manager Wyman to Superintendent Martin’s office, where we learn “that there is no prospect of getting our train across the washout this week.
Brothers Wyman, Maxwell, Sheppard, Gilliland, and myself walked down to the washout this evening and came back in the caboose of the work train.
A visit to Superintendent Martin’s office results in the information that the washout situation remains unchanged.
We learn that our train cannot be gotten over the washout to-day, and arrangements are being made to remain in the city to-night.
Manager Wyman has just returned from the washout and brings no encouragement.
The form, as here shown, is a washout closet, and is the one in most general use.
He knew a deep washout lay now between himself and the Little Doctor, and his only hope was to get within speaking distance before she was overtaken.
I never could get the creams through the gate, with a man hung to the frame; they'd spill us into the washout by the old shed, sure as fate.
Concho fled to the very brink of the washout and stopped so suddenly that his forefeet plowed a furrow in the grass, and the Little Doctor came near going clean over his head.
Throwing herself from the saddle, she slid precipitately into the washoutjust as Denver thundered up, snorting a challenge.
The little party was surrounded by the Sioux and took refuge in a shallow washout at the head of a ravine, where they were somewhat sheltered from the enemy's fire by the sunflower stalks and the low edges of the bank.
One day one of the students came up to him for washout check.
The California fruit trains, not due for twenty-four hours, coming in a day ahead of time with the Mountain Division tied up by the worst washout it had ever seen.
Recovering consciousness at the bottom of a washout he found the calf of one leg ripped a little, as he put it.
As a pebble striking an anthill stirs into angry life a thousand startled workers, so a mountain washout startles a division and concentrates upon a single point the very last reserve of its activities and energies.
Old Robinson is the washout yuh want to ride around at present; I ain't worrying about the rest, right now.
I heard some mention of a Washout Coulie; is that where we're headin' right now; and why d'ye reckon they give it such a funny name?
It might be the name came from a washout that happened some time ago.
The four scouts determined to ride out in a bunch with Chunky and see the prize herd taken back to the vicinity of Washout Coulie.
So make up your mind you're agoin' out and help git that prize herd in from the Washout Coulie.
This was after the news was circulated that the rustlers had been in the act of making off with the cattle in Washout Coulie at the time the Double Cross boys arrived on the scene.
The depth of the water at A is much greater than at the corresponding point in the washout closets; as a consequence fecal matter is almost submerged.
The name washout comes from the action of the water to wash out the contents of the bowl.
It was something so different from a hole, or a washout as the children had imagined that to be, that when they saw it they were very much excited and surprised.
Don't try to keep around on the ridge; there's a deep washout on each side, so you couldn't possibly make it.
When nothing was to be seen of the land but the twinkle of the fires in the camp, they were lying in a deep washout under a bluff, which overlooked the hostile camp.
Having carefully reconnoitered and considered the place, they left their horses in a dry washout and crawled toward it through the sage brush.
