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Carver said it wasn't any funeral of his, and so he didn't see no need to argue with him. And he allowed, he said, maybe he had some call to feel the way he did about America, and to want to get quick out of it, after being up against Palomitas for what he guessed you might say was a full day.
The Sage-Brush Hen, along with some of the other girls, had come in from the back room where the dancing was to find out what the circus was about; and when they caught on to what Palomitas was going to be like when Hart's aunt struck it they all just yelled.
And then the old gent would say that such tender motherliness did her credit, and hers was a sweet nature, and he'd hold her hand till she took it away. Hill said the time passed so pleasant he forgot how it was going, and when he happened to think to look at his watch he found he'd have to everlastingly hustle his mules to get over to Palomitas in time to ketch the Denver train.
But as it was a matter that seriously affected the comfort and convenience of everybody in Palomitas, he said, it was only square to take a vote on it and so he'd ask all in favor of Mr. Cherry's motion to say "Ay." And everybody in the room except the few that was asleep, or too drunk to say anything said "Ay" as loud as they knowed how. "Mr.
Wood said he guessed he broke the lying record that afternoon; and he said he reckoned if the little man swallowed half of what was give him, and there wasn't much of anything he gagged at, he must a-thought Palomitas with its church twice Sundays and prayer-meetings regular three times a week, and its faro-bank with the preacher for dealer, and its Sunshine Club that was all mixed in with shooting-scrapes, and its Friendly Aid Society that attended mostly to what lynchings was needed was something like a bit of heaven that had broke out from the corral it belonged in and gone to grazing in hell's front yard!
The Committee put her in their list because they knowed for a fact there was bound to be ructions in Palomitas as long as she stayed there; and so they found 'emselves in a deepish hole when she said plump Palomitas suited her, and she didn't mean to be fired. The Hen knowed as well as they did she had a cinch on 'em.
And she said she was as pleased as she was surprised to find out the kind of a town Palomitas was because her nephew William's letters had led her to think it had a good many bad characters in it; and he'd not mentioned any church but the Catholic one where the natives went; and as to the Bible Class and the Friendly Aid Society, he'd never said a word about 'em at all.
Palomitas was going in for purification, Cherry said, and the moral effect of having Santa Fé along at Bill's funeral was part of the purifying. The very fact that Santa Fé was kicking so hard against it, he said, showed it was a good thing. There was sense in that, too; and so the upshot of it was the boys come round to Cherry's plan.
"While I am the school-teacher in Palomitas I shall not permit you boys to play your pranks on strangers; and 'specially not on this gentleman whom I claim as a friend of mine because we both come from the same dear old town." That was the first time anybody'd ever heard the Hen wasn't hatched-out in Kansas City.
As drinks in Palomitas was sighted for a thousand yards, and carried to kill further, by the time Boston had three of 'em in him on top of the ones he'd had with Wood at supper he was loaded enough to be careless about what was happening among the sunspots and ready to take things pretty much as they come along.
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