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They're buckin' against my way of handlin' 'em. And 'specially because I concludes to hit the brush while Sam Kinney is ridin' the line. I saves 'em from bein' shot or sent up on a state contract, and they up and says I'm no good." "It ain't so much that," explained Cactus, "as it is they're plum locoed about Piggy.
"He wouldn't, you can gamble on that, as Laddy says. ... Well, the first time I catch this locoed Romeo sneaking round here I'll I'll " "Dad, you promised." "Confound it, Nell, I promised not to pack a gun. That's all. I'll only shoo this fellow off the place, gently, mind you, gently. I'll leave the rest for Dick Gale!"
Then my friend again took up discussion. "Thar comes few Injuns investigatin' into Wolfville. Doorin' them emutes of Cochise, an' Geronimo, an' Nana, the Apaches goes No'th an' South clost in by that camp of ours, but you bet! they're never that locoed as to rope once at Wolfville.
Day and night he hears no sound except the melancholy, monotonous bleat, bleat of the sheep. It becomes intolerable. The animal stupidity of the herd enters into him. Gradually he loses his mind. They say that he is locoed. The insane asylums of California contain many shepherds.
I just left him down at the cabin. He was gettin' ready for bed, early as it is. All tired out he was an' thet white you wouldn't have knowed him. But he looked happy at thet, an' the last words he said, more to himself than to me, I reckon, was, 'I'm some locoed gent, but if she doesn't call me Tom now she's no good!" Bo actually clapped her hands, notwithstanding that one of them was bandaged.
And all this noisy, foreign band, locoed by the easy money, intoxicated with the sensual beauty of the ancient, seductive city, enchanted by the delightful warmth of the southern nights, made drunk by the insidious fragrance of the white acacias these hundreds of thousands of insatiable, dissolute beasts in the image of men, with all their massed will clamoured: "Give us woman!"
"You're actin' locoed. Guess you're carryin' your load yet. I'll talk to the kid. We 're losing time. See here, stranger...." Overland, watching and listening from his hiding-place, grinned as the constable sullenly mounted his horse. Winthrop politely but firmly declined to acknowledge that he had had a companion.
When he awoke he was pale, weak, but the old Thorne. "Hello, Dick; I didn't dream it then," he said. "There you are, and my darling with the proud, dark eyes she's here?" "Why, yes, you locoed cavalryman." "Say, what's happened to you? It can't be those clothes and a little bronze on your face.... Dick, you're older you've changed. You're not so thickly built. By Gad, if you don't look fine!"
It makes a heap of difference who your company is, too. Those punchers wouldn't take a chance at me now for a million dollars." "No, they're some haidstrong, but they ain't plumb locoed," agreed Mac. Fifteen minutes later Helen drew up at the line corner. "We'll part company here, Mr. Bannister. I don't think there is any more danger from my men." "Before we part there is something I want to say.
Leading the cow, and aided by "Tex" McGonnigle, who boasted that he had a heart as big as the country he lived in and was willing to prove it by helping him with the locoed horses, Wallie made fair progress as far as the gate in the last wire fence, where "Tex" had to leave him.
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