Word: blanketed
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...aged farmer for night's lodging in his hay-loft. Freshman fool enough not to put out his pipe. Blows smoke in farmer's face. Farmer says "nix"; backed up by bull-dog. Bivouac in pasture. Loaded bushes, complaisant cow. Supper on berries and milk. Heavy dew. One blanket, monopolized by Freshman. More brandy. Midnight attack by enraged bull. Retreat in bad order to opposite side of stone wall. Watch bull gore forty pounds of baggage, assisted by cow. Sleep up a tree. Freshman's bough breaks. Bruised ankle. Brandy instead of arnica...
...lifeless breast his blanket spread...
...into a tank of cool, refreshing water. The place was long and winding, lighted by gas, with a little shelf at each end, just like the seal's tank in an aquarium. Leaving this subterranean lake, I was rubbed down after the manner of ostlers, and laid under a blanket. This was decidedly pleasant. I felt like a new man. Nothing was needed to complete my happiness but a cigarette. I asked in an humble voice to be allowed to smoke one, but the man in the choker said, with a frown, that "Dr. Lewis did not approve of tobacco...
...benighted East, saw the new-born poet only through a cloud of shapeless rumors and perverted facts; but at length the mist cleared away, and disclosed the figure of a tall man, wearing upon his head a great slouched hat, and thrown across his shoulders a United States army blanket, fiercely stroking his mustaches, and pointing with a gleaming knife at an open volume of poems. This was Joaquin Miller. "I give you my honor, sir, that he was born of a half-breed and a Mexican cattle-thief, sir. Until his seventeenth year, he never saw a book...