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"'Cherokee makes me tired, says Peets, who's ridin' herd on the play. When it comes his turn he kisses her slow an' rapturous, an' is contemptuous of Cherokee. "When she's in the stage a-startin', Cherokee walks up, all respectful. "'You've been away from the States some time, Miss, he says, 'an' it's an even break you won't find things the way you expects.
"Colonel!" she exclaimed, in pained astonishment. "Do you forget your promise?" "Er er " the old horseman began and became speechless. Madge was all excitement. "Mr. Frank has told me all about it," she said gaily. "I kin see it, now th' grand-stand filled with folks, th' jockeys ridin' in their bright colors, th' horses a-champin' an' a-pullin' at their bits an' then th' start!"
"Sure, an' I don't like bein' pushed around, an' I don't like to see other folks kicked an' slugged by a lot of spalpeens dressed up in brown shirts." "You may get to wave to that girl when we fly over Berlin," Stan said. "I could go straight to her house, only she lives a ways out of Berlin. We used to go ridin' in the country on our bikes.
In them days Kansas an' Nebraska was as bad, come to think of it, as these days right here on the border of Utah. I got to be pretty handy with guns. An' there wasn't many riders as could beat me ridin'. An' I can say all modest-like that I never seen the white man who could track a hoss or a steer or a man with me.
An' accordin' to what dad says, Kelso pulled first. Rex ain't lettin' nobody perforate him, you bet!" "He is too ready with his pistol." The girl caught the repugnance in Ruth's voice. "I thought you kind of liked Randerson," she said. Ruth blushed. "What made you think that?" she demanded. "I've heard that you've gone ridin' with him a lot. I just reckoned it." "You are mistaken, Hagar.
Wiley; "'specially if Rose encourages him in such silly foolishness as ridin' logs from his house down to ourn, dark nights." "Seein' as how Steve built ye a nice pig pen last month, 'pears to me you might have a good word for him now an' then, mother," remarked Old Kennebec, reaching for his second piece of pie.
"He come here after you, all dressed up, an' I told him you was gone down to Ellen's to carry the cake. So he said he'd go along down an' fetch you up, an' I told him he better stop to Ardelia's an' see if you wasn't there. An' then he come back, ridin' like the wind, an' he said I could tell you Mis' Drake said you's goin' to the picnic with Oliver.
"Comes as natural as breathin' to him. We trailed a hoss to this here wickiup" the hot lust of the man-hunt was in the cowboy's eyes as he swung down "and we aim to see who was ridin' him!" Houck and his three companions sat their horses as the fourth member of the posse shouldered the old Indian aside and entered the shack.
This mornin' as I was ridin' to this appintment-ah I looked up to the leaves of the trees-ah, and they seemed to be sayin', 'Good-by, Brother Crawford-ah. And then I see the little birds singin' in the woods, and I fancied they said, 'Good-by, good-by, Brother Crawford-ah. Then I gazed at the purty squirrels runnin' along the ground and climbin' up the trees, and they 'peared to be barkin', 'Good-bye, O good-bye, Brother Crawford-ah! After awhile I come to a lot of pigs awallerin' in mud by the roadside.
Madame Tallafferr, in the glory of black silk, the Pinckney lace, the Pemberton diamond, and accompanied by that fat relic of slavery, Black Sally, had been taking the air genteelly on a bench when the disturbance grated upon her sensitive ear. "What is that rabble about, Sally?" she inquired. The aged negress reconnoitered. "Reckon dey's ridin' a gentmun on a rail," she reported.
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