Chapter 13
Cloud Sign Versus CupidFew men are ever called upon by untoward circumstance to know
the sensations caused by rattlesnake bite, knife gashes, impromptu
cauterization, and, topping the whole, the peculiar t*****e of
congested veins and swollen muscles which comes from a tourniquet.
The feeling must be unpleasant in the extreme, and the most morbid
of sensation-seekers would scarcely put himself in the way of that
particular experience.
Peppajee Jim, therefore, had reason in plenty for glowering at
the world as he saw it that day. He held Huckleberry rigidly down
to his laziest amble that the jar of riding might be lessened, kept
his injured foot free from the stirrup, and merely grunted when
Good Indian asked him once how he felt.
When they reached the desolation of
