2014, ISBN: 9781499651577

Gunman's Reckoning: Paperback: Createspace: 9781499651577: 26 May 2014: The fifty empty freights danced and rolled and rattled on the rough road bed and filled Jericho Pass with thunder; … Altro …

Gunman's Reckoning: Paperback: Createspace: 9781499651577: 26 May 2014: The fifty empty freights danced and rolled and rattled on the rough road bed and filled Jericho Pass with thunder; the big engine was laboring and grunting at the grade, but five cars back the noise of the locomotive was lost. Yet there is a way to talk above the noise of a freight train just as there is a way to whistle into the teeth of a stiff wind. This freight-car talk is pitched just above the ordinary tone?it. The fifty empty freights danced and rolled and rattled on the rough road bed and filled Jericho Pass with thunder; the big engine was laboring and grunting at the grade, but five cars back the noise of the locomotive was lost. Yet there is a way to talk above the noise of a freight train just as there is a way to whistle into the teeth of a stiff wind. This freight-car talk is pitched just above the ordinary tone?it is an overtone of conversation, one might say?and it is distinctly nasal. The brakie could talk above the racket, and so, of course, could Lefty Joe. They sat about in the center of the train, on the forward end of one of the cars. No matter how the train lurched and staggered over that fearful road bed, these two swayed in their places as easily and as safely as birds on swinging perches. The brakie had touched Lefty Joe for two dollars; he had secured fifty cents; and since the vigor of Lefty's oaths had convinced him that this was all the money the tramp had, the two now sat elbow to elbow and killed the distance with their talk."It's like old times to have you here," said the brakie. "You used to play this line when you jumped from coast to coast. Anthologies (non-Poetry), , , , Gunman's Reckoning, Max Brand, 9781499651577, Createspace, , , , ,<

ISBN: 9781499651577

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], The fifty empty freights danced and rolled and rattled on the rough road bed and filled Jericho Pass with thunder; the big en… Altro …

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], The fifty empty freights danced and rolled and rattled on the rough road bed and filled Jericho Pass with thunder; the big engine was laboring and grunting at the grade, but five cars back the noise of the locomotive was lost. Yet there is a way to talk above the noise of a freight train just as there is a way to whistle into the teeth of a stiff wind. This freight-car talk is pitched just above the ordinary tone, Anthologies (non-poetry)<

2014, ISBN: 1499651570

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