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Slim-like, with blue eyes and kind o' bright, wavy-like hair. He never said nothin' about his folks. He was a awful quiet kid." John Corliss studied Sundown's face. "You say he was killed in a wreck?" "I ain't sure. But I reckon he was. It was a bad one. He was ridin' a empty, just ahead of me. Then the whole train buckled up and somethin' hit me on the lid. That's all I remember, till after."
"Your tickler thinks," Gusterson repeated stubbornly, "just like I warned you it would. It sits on your shoulder, ridin' you like you was a pony or a starved St. Bernard, and now it thinks." "Suppose it does?" Fay yawned. "What of it?" He gave a rapid sinuous one-sided shrug that made it look for a moment as if his left arm had three elbows.
"There's a mad devil o' a man behind, ridin' down all he comes across. A's blazin' drunk, I reckon but 'tisn' that 'tis the horrible voice that goes wi' en Hark! Lord protect us, he's turn'd into the lane!" Sure enough, the clatter of a second horse was coming down upon us, out of the night and with it the most ghastly sounds that ever creamed a man's flesh.
Go canny now, and make no noise. Get through and off with ye into your cave as hard as ever you can lift a foot, I'll cap them at the door, lad. I'm the woman can do it. Faith and I'll sort them, be they who it may, so as they'll no be in too great a hurry to come ridin' to this house again, the black-hearted villains.
Be my sowl, he'll make yez rub your heels together, for keepin' an innocent boy in jail, that there's no law or no warrant out for. This is the way we're thrated by thim that's ridin' rough shod over us. But have a taste o' patience, ye scoundrels! It won't last, I can tell yez. Our day will soon come, an' thin I'd recommend yez to thravel for your health.
She rang her bell vigorously then and Janice flew to its answering. "I dreamed of Jack," said the old lady, looking up with a smile. "I dreamed we was each ridin’ on camels in a merry-go-round." Janice smiled too, and then set briskly to work to put the room in order and arrange its occupant for the day. "Did there come any mail?"
I thought maybe I'd come back to the Lazy River and get a job ridin' the range again." "Aren't there any ranches round the Bend?" she asked, poking up the fire and setting on the coffee-pot. "Plenty, but I I like the Lazy River country," he told her. "Fort Creek country for yores truly, now and hereafter." In this fashion did the proposed journey to Arizona go glimmering.
'But if I see him hangin' round the corrals ag'in, or in the bunk-house, you needn't to wait for me to tell you which way is north. "Well, young John had done a good job. 'Course ole Demijohn used to come sneakin' round in the moonlight, once in a spell, botherin' some of the boys, but he stayed clear of young John. And young John he took to ridin' straight and hard and 'tendin' to business.
She had him skinned on ridin' though; 'cause while he was able to set anything on four feet, he allus showed 'at he had begun late in life, an' he sometimes jerked the bit unintentional; while she well, I reckon she must 'a' been born on hoss-back, an' besides, I had give her all the pointers the' was.
Sho' 'nuff, wid de fust light of de mawnin', de rebs come ridin' toward de light in de winder. I'd run out to de hill, not far away, ter see what would happen, an' it was so dark yet dat eb'ryting was mixed up wid shadders. When de rebs was a-comin' by de Linkum men in de woods a shot was fired. Den I s'pose de rebs tought it would gib de 'larm, fer dey began ter run dere hosses for'ard.
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