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Old Pegleg came cantering along with his rifle balanced on the sliding withers of his mare-mule, for he rode without a saddle. He was an oldish man and fat for a mountaineer. A ten-year-old nephew rode behind him, with his short arms encircling his uncle's paunch. The old man wore a dirty white shirt with a tabbed bosom; a single shiny white china button held the neckband together at the back.
But two days and nights of still-hunting, of patiently lying in wait behind brush fences, of noiseless, pussy-footed patrolling in likely places, brought the survivor of the decimated Dugmores his chance. He caught Pegleg Trantham riding down Red Bird Creek on a mare-mule. Pegleg was only a distant connection of the main strain of the enemy.
When he ended his verse he bade one of his pages saddle him his Nubian mare-mule with her padded selle. Moreover he bade lay on her back a piece of silk for a seat, and a prayer-carpet under which were his saddle-bags. He bought at Bilbays all he wanted for himself and forage for his mule and then fared on the way of the waste.
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