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"Peets confides in me of an' concernin' the Major that thar's a time an' no further up the trail than five years when the Major is shore-'nough a Major; bein' quartermaster or some sech bluff in the army.
I'll offer the motion: Let's prance over in a bunch, an' demand a explanation of Missis Rucker. Dave's been talkin' to her as much as ever he has to Peets, an' thar's no professional hobbles on the lady; she's footloose, an' free to speak.
It's the hit of the barbecue; an' in this way, little by little, my grandfather wins his neighbors to his beliefs, ontil he's got the commoonity all stretched an' hawgtied, an' brands her triumphant for Gen'ral Jackson. "'An' does your own pap follow in the footprints of his old gent, as a convincin' an' determined statesman that a-way? asks Doc Peets.
An', say! I'm yere to express my regrets at them weaknesses. If I was a eddicated gent like Doc Peets is, you can put down all you has, I'd be the cunnin'est wolf that ever yelps in Cochise County. "'An' thar ain't no doubt of that, Boggs, observes Enright, as he reorganizes to go ahead with them Donna Anna mem'ries of his.
Now thar's luck at the jump; you can't lose an' you may win, so set in yere. Napoleon never has half the show. "Peets goes away for an hour about somethin', an' Rainbow Sam takes his seat; an', merely to show how one gent outlucks another, while Peets has had the luck of dogs it's that profuse an' good, it looks like the best Rainbow can get is an even break.
Nacherally, Enright don't like this spectral play; an' him an' Peets lays for the wraith with rifles, busts its knee some, an' Peets ampytates its laig. Then they throws it loose; allowin' that now it's only got one lai'g, the visitations will mighty likely cease. Moreover Enright regyards ampytation that a-way, as punishment enough. Which I should shore allow the same myse'f!
At last Enright lifts his head off the saddle. "'Mebby it's twenty years ago when a party over on the Rio Grande allows as how Jim's aimin' to cold-deck me when he onfolds about the habits of them beans. It takes seven months, a iron constitootion, an' three medicine-sharps an' each as good as Doc Peets, before that Rio Grande party is regarded as outen danger."
"This argument of the Colonel's dazzles Hamilton to that degree he don't know whether he's got the high hand or not. He thinks a minute, an' then p'ints over to the Red Light for Enright an' Doc Peets. As he leaves the rival dance-hall, the Colonel, who's callin' off his dances, turns to the quadrille, which is pausin pendin' the dispoote, an' shouts: "'You bet I knows my business!
"Son, this pore innocent Coyote takes in Dan's fictions like so much spring water; he believes 'em utter. But the wonder is to see how he changes. He don't say nothin', but his-eyes sort o' sparks up an' his face gets as gray as his ha'r. It's now that Doc Peets comes along. "'Yere is this devourin' scoundrel now, says Texas Thompson, p'intin' to Peets.
"Doc Peets an' Enright, likewise the rest, don't like this none whatever, for she don't show dance-hall y'ear marks, an' ain't the dance-hall brand; but it looks like they's powerless to interfere. "Peets tries to talk to her, but she blushes an' can't hear him; while Enright an' Missis Rucker which the last bein' a female herse'f is rung in on the play don't win out nothin' more.
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