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On a Monday noon a small company of horsemen strung out along the trail from Sunk Creek1 to gather cattle over their allotted2 sweep of range. Spring was backward, and they, as they rode galloping3 and gathering4 upon the cold week's work, cursed cheerily and occasionally sang. The Virginian was grave in bearing and of infrequent speech; but he kept a song going--a matter of some seventy-nine verses. Seventy-eight were quite unprintable, and rejoiced his brother cowpunchers monstrously6. They, knowing him to be a singular man, forebore ever to press him, and awaited his own humor, lest he should weary of the lyric7; and when after a day of silence apparently8 saturnine9, he would lift his gentle voice and begin:
"If you go to monkey with my Looloo girl,
I'll tell you what I'll do:
I'll cyarve your heart with my razor, AND
I'll shoot you with my pistol, too--"
then they would stridently take up each last line, and keep it going three, four, ten times, and kick holes in the ground to the swing of it.
By the levels of Bear Creek that reach like inlets among the promontories10 of the lonely hills, they came upon the schoolhouse, roofed and ready for the first native Wyoming crop. It symbolized11 the dawn of a neighborhood, and it brought a change into the wilderness12 air. The feel of it struck cold upon the free spirits of the cow-punchers, and they told each other that, what with women and children and wire fences, this country would not long be a country for men. They stopped for a meal at an old comrade's. They looked over his gate, and there he was pattering among garden

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heartily
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craving
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buffalo
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catching
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Ford
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descending
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inefficient
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meek
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drenched
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感情,激情; 缰( rein的名词复数 ); 控制手段; 掌管; (成人带着幼儿走路以防其走失时用的)保护带 | |
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默想( meditation的名词复数 ); 默念; 沉思; 冥想 | |
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precisely
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maidenly
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resentment
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mythology
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