David Malcolm (Classic Reprint)
Description:... Excerpt from David Malcolm And, David, be careful about rattlesnakes, ' said my mother.
Had I not seen in her anxious eyes a menace against all my plans for that day I should have laughed outright in scorn, but knowing it never wise to pit my own daring against a mother's pru dence, I returned meekly, Yessom.' Then I gave the horse a surreptitious kick, trying thus to set all the ponderous f our in motion. The unsympathetic animal would not move in obedience to my com mand. Instead, he shook himself vigorously, so that I had to seize the harness to save myself from an ignominious tumble into the road.
You won' t let David wander out of your sight, now, will you, J ames? My mother said.
J ames was climbing into the saddle. Being a de liberate man in all his actions, he made no sign that he had heard until he had both f cet securely in the stirrups, until he had struck a match on his boot leg and had lighted his pipe, until he had unhooked the single rein by which he guided the leaders and was ready to give his horses the word to move. Then he spoke in a voice of gentle protest.
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