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Miss Sally Wooster herself was drawn from the house by the fusillade. With Comanche-like whoops, a horseman came dashing madly toward the men, brandishing two huge revolvers as he rode. "Skete, and drunk in the morning," said Tuttle. A moment later the rider scattered the population as he rode his weltering pony through the group.
There were also numerous gentlemen of a Comanche-like physiognomy, who wore ordinary dress, but were distinguished by flower wreaths in lieu of hat bands. Here and there Chinese women loafed about, wearing trousers of a kind of black oilcloth, and leading Chinese babies dressed in more colors than Joseph's coat grass-green, black, azure, and rose.
Out in the street horses snorted and whirled against each other, spurs rattled, and leather creaked as the men leaped into their saddles. With a thunder of hoofs, a whirl of white dust, the slapping of quirts and ropes against horses' flanks, the wicked bark of forty-fives, and a series of Comanche-like yells the cowboys dashed out onto the flat.
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