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"We've got aboot fifty broomies out heah in a canyon. We'll drive 'em in today, an' also some saddle hosses for you." "I'll buy a horse," interposed Pan. "You'll do nothin' of the sort," declared Blinky stoutly. "Ain't we got a string of hosses, an' there shore might be one of them good enough even for Panhandle Smith. But you want a saddle. There's one in Black's store.
"Whatsomedever we make out to do four on us ag'inst that there whole enduring army o' their'n has got to be done on the keen jump, with a toler'ble plain hoss-road for the skimper-scamper race when it is done. For, looking it up and down and side to side, we've got to have hosses some o' their hosses, at that.
"Nevah foh a moment, suh," one elderly well-preserved Kentuckian had said, "will I deny the Dillon mare the right to be the public's choice. But she has nevah met such a field of hosses as this, suh and she lacks the bone to carry top weight against them." There had been many nods of approval at this statement, and I had gone to the Dillon party for consolation.
"But I'll tell ye what ye can do," said the man, "if ye choose to wait here a little while. The boss of this house went over to Stipbitts last night to see his mother, and I expect him back putty soon, and I guess he'll let ye have his hoss. Ye see the people about here ain't used to hiring hosses, and we is. People as keeps hotels is expected to do it."
"Wal, when will you have the hosses fetched over?" he asked, deliberately. "Creech'll want to know." "Just as soon as the boat's mended," replied Bostil. "I'll put Shugrue on the job to-morrow." "Thanks, Bostil. Sure, thet'll be all right. Creech'll be satisfied," said the rider, as if relieved. Then he mounted, and with his companion trotted down the lane.
"You promise us protection from that 'Independence' outfit?" The sheriff nodded decisively. "Never lost no prisoner yet to a mob," he replied confidently. "I reckon thar'll be one hell of a fight before I do now. However, you don't need to worry, young man. On second thought, I 'll have the hosses brought over here, an' we 'll go down this trail."
"Yes, Massa Mike, but de hosses find it out, even it we don't," answered Dio in a cheery tone; "what we best do is to let dem take dare own way; dey know what the wood is, dough we no see him."
I certainly am tired of hosses I can't touch with my hand. Fo' fo'ty yeahs I have handled these locoed hosses they ah all locoed in my judgment and I am plum tired of such. I shall send to Missouri aw Tennessee and get me a hoss I can trust.
I wish't he'd use one kind o' figgurin' a leetle more; he'd pay me for that wood-sawin'. I didn't mean nothin' about hosses. I sot out fur to say, Why don't ye marry Miss Lucindy?" "I?" gasped Monsieur, "I, the foreign, the poor? I could not to presume so!" "Well, I don't see 's it's sech drefful presumption.
"I thought some fust, an' then I thinks what's ther odds? Thar's plenty o' hosses in camp, an' it'll probably save ther feller's life ter let him hev ther pony, what ain't none out o' ther common, so I says, 'It's a go, pard. I clumb down an' we changed saddles, an' he handed over ther pack o' cigareets an' we went our ways." "Yer shore is a kind-hearted man." "I ain't, neither.
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