B. M. Bower

Name: Chip, of the Flying U — X. What Whizzer Did
Author: B. M. Bower

Chip, of the Flying U — X. What Whizzer Did (1906)

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“Chip, of the Flying U — X. What Whizzer Did”, published in 1906, is a work by B. M. Bower. It explores elements such as Whizzer, Chip and Weary.

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B. M. Bower, Chip, of the Flying U — X. What Whizzer Did (1906)

“ She heard them call to Slim to open the corral gate, and saw Slim run to do their bidding. She forgot her sketching and watched Whizzer dodge and bolt back, and Chip tear through the creek bed after him at peril of life and limb.
Back and forth, round and round went Whizzer, running almost through the corral gate, then swerving suddenly and evading his pursuers with an ease which bordered closely on the marvelous. Slim saddled a horse and joined in the chase, and the Old Man climbed upon the fence and shouted advice which no one heard and would not have heeded if they had. ”

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B. M. Bower, Chip, of the Flying U — X. What Whizzer Did (1906)

“ Perhaps Whizzer understood the command in some mysterious, telepathic manner. At any rate, he set himself straightway to obey it, and there was not a shadow of doubt but that he did his best—but Chip did not choose to go over the stable. Instead of doing so, he remained in the saddle and changed ends with his quirt, to the intense rage of the Little Doctor, who nearly cried.
“Oh, you brute! You fiend! I’ll never speak to you again as long as I live! Oh, Whizzer, you poor fellow, why do you let him abuse you so? Why don't you throw him clean off the ranch?” ”

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B. M. Bower, Chip, of the Flying U — X. What Whizzer Did (1906)

“ Chip, in none the best humor with him, jerked the reins savagely and dug him with his spurs, and Whizzer, resenting the affront, whirled and bounded high in the air. Back down the grade he bucked with the high, rocking, crooked jumps which none but a Western cayuse can make, while Weary turned in his saddle and watched with sharp-drawn breaths. ”

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B. M. Bower, Chip, of the Flying U — X. What Whizzer Did (1906)

“ She crossed the grade and climbed the steep bluff beyond, searching for a comfortable place to work.
A little higher, she took possession of a great, gray bowlder jutting like a giant table from the gravelly soil. She walked out upon it and looked down—a sheer drop of ten or twelve feet to the barren, yellow slope below.
“I suppose it is perfectly solid,” she soliloquized and stamped one stout, little boot, to see if the rock would tremble. If human emotions are possible to a heart of stone, the rock must have been greatly amused at the test. ”

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B. M. Bower, Chip, of the Flying U — X. What Whizzer Did (1906)

“ The Little Doctor never could remember getting down that bluff, and her sketching materials went to amuse the jack rabbits and the birds. Fast as she flew, Weary was before her and had raised Chip’s head upon one arm. She knelt beside him in the dust, hovering over the white face and still form like a pitying, little gray angel. Weary looked at her impersonally, but neither of them spoke in those first, breathless moments.
The Old Man, who had witnessed the accident, came puffing laboriously up the hill, taking the short cut straight across from the stable. ”

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B. M. Bower, Chip, of the Flying U — X. What Whizzer Did (1906)

“ The best of us are not above trying to pull the wool over our own eyes, at times.
In reality their brief presence made the near future seem very flat and insipid to the Little Doctor. It was washing all the color out of the picture, and leaving it a dirty gray. She gazed moodily down at the whirl of dust in the corral, where Whizzer was struggling to free himself from the loop Chip had thrown with his accustomed, calm precision. Whatever Chip did he did thoroughly, with no slurring of detail. Whizzer was fain to own himself fairly caught. ”

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B. M. Bower, Chip, of the Flying U — X. What Whizzer Did (1906)

“ Must he answer? He wanted to drift on and on——
“Can you tell me where the pain is?”
Pain? Oh, yes, there had been pain—but he wanted to drift. He opened his eyes again reluctantly; again the pain clutched him. ”

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B. M. Bower, Chip, of the Flying U — X. What Whizzer Did (1906)

“ What Whizzer Did.
“I guess Happy lost some of his horses, las’ night,” said Slim at the breakfast table next morning. Slim had been kept at the ranch to look after the fences and the ditches, and was doing full justice to the expert cookery of the Countess.
“What makes yuh think that?” The Old Man poised a bit of tender, broiled steak upon the end of his fork.
“They’s a bunch hangin’ around the upper fence, an’ Whizzer’s among ’em. I’d know that long-legged snake ten miles away.” ”

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