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Bein' no hand to do love-makin' stylish, I just passes her a couple of bouquets onct or twict and said a few words. Now, you see, if I get that buckboard and a couple of hosses I sure would like the white ones and drive over lookin' like business and slip the ole man a box of cigars I bought, and Mrs.
"What did you see, Mose, and how did you see it?" asked the preacher. "Ah war a-hidin' behin' de upper big post of de barn gate, an' ah hearn hosses' hoofs beatin' up de road, an' soon de constables cum along wid de prisoners. Wa'n't dem moonshiners mad, do? Jes' as dey war 'proaching de gate Sam Wiles said: 'Dat cantin' preacher has got me 'rested twice now, but he won't do it ag'in.
An' I wanted hosses, too. I had to take chances. So I crawled close to their camp. One feller jumped a hoss with little Fay, an' when I shot him, of course she dropped. She's stunned an' bruised she fell right on her head. Jane, she's comin' to! She ain't bad hurt!" Fay's long lashes fluttered; her eyes opened. At first they seemed glazed over. They looked dazed by pain.
Then they "toted" their loads down to where they had left their horses. "I'll take two of the hosses, if you don't mind," said the cowboy, and it was agreed that he should take Dave's animal along with his own. He decided to start for the ranch that night, stating he would camp at the spot where they had had dinner.
Louis," began Ted, "not because I didn't trust your ability to keep a secret, but in order to keep every one else in the dark." "D'yer mean ter say that ye hev stalled me along ter this town ter give me a leetle airin', an' not ter sell hosses?" asked Bud indignantly. "Not exactly. I want to sell the horses for the top price, but there was something else behind it."
Steal hosses, will ye!" said they. "I didn't steal the horse!" cried poor Severne; "I hired him from Smith." A roar of laughter greeted this statement. "Hired Colorado and the boys to chase you, too, didn't ye!" suggested one, with heavy sarcasm. "Yes, I did," answered Severne, sincerely. They laughed again. "Nerve!" said they. Near the fallen horse several began discussing the affair.
With floor bare and hard and white, except for a patch of green mesquite near the far end it was a lurid and desolate spot, the barren bottom of a desert bowl. "Keep down, boys" said Ladd. "There's the waterhole an' hosses have sharp eyes. Shore the Yaqui figgered this place. I never seen its like for a trap."
It's the same with clothes as it is with thoroughbred hosses and women you can always tell them, no matter how they've come down in the world. And it's like that with boots too. This chap's boots hadn't been cleaned for days, but they were boots, and not holes to put your feet into, like most people wear." "You made no effort to detain him?"
David had said to him once when he suspected that John's ideas might have sustained something of a shock, "A hoss-trade ain't like anythin' else. A feller may be straighter 'n a string in ev'rythin' else, an' never tell the truth that is, the hull truth about a hoss. I trade hosses with hoss-traders. They all think they know as much as I do, an' I dunno but what they do.
"You can ask Ole Bill aboot thet. The way Pronto was hurt come off like this. Buster Jack rode out to where we was brandin' an' jumped his hoss over a fence into the pasture. He hed a rope an' he got to chasin' some hosses over thar. One was Pronto, an' the son-of-a-gun somehow did git the noose over Pronto's head.
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