It was not the only dead ox, eight others were down and as many more were sickening.
"Chil does not leave a dead ox, nor the dhole the blood-trail," said Kaa.
Unfortunately, Skippy occupied the only chair in the measuring room, and no dead ox was handy.
He said that she could buy as much land as she could cover with the skin of a dead ox.
To see a dead ox, is a sign of bereavement.
The horse told him to demand a hundred dead oxen, cut to pieces, and they rode off.
The other two dead oxen were Whitehead's.
Each of them testified that they either saw, or suspected, that the Baker-Fancher party poisoned a spring and a dead ox, later eaten by Native Americans.
The wheelers, helpless between the weight of the wagon behind and the dead oxen in front, might twist their necks off but they could do no damage.
The winged devils drop from the skies like vultures on a dead ox!