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"Take 'em by an' large an' these lads chasin' cows' tails are the salt o' the earth. They'll go farther with you an' stick longer than anybody else you ever met up with. Once they know you an' like you. But they'll be right offish with you for a while. Kinda polite an' distant, I expect. S-some overbearin' g-guy will start runnin' on you, knowin' it'll be safe.
The Canadians and Indians crept up again, and fired on us from the bushes. "S-Some of your Canawaugha friends, B-Ben, come to pay you a call." We got behind trees and bushes, and we and the French picked each other off till night came. Several of our men were wounded. How much the enemy suffered I do not know, as the Indians drag off their dead.
"Doggone yore hide, you're always stickin' me somehow," stormed the cowboy. "Trouble with me is I'm so soft I'm always gettin' imposed on. I done told you I didn't like this guy a-tall. That don't make no more impression on you than a cold runnin'-iron would on a cow." "M-much obliged, Dud. I knew you'd do it." "I ain't said I'd do it." "S-some of the boys are liable to get on the prod with him.
She looked up, smiling faintly at his enthusiastic tone. "Are you fond of sweets? I always keep them for Cesare; he is a perfect baby over any kind of lollipops." "R-r-really? Well, you must get him s-some more to-morrow and give me these to take with me. No, let me p-p-put the toffee in my pocket; it will console me for all the lost joys of life.
"I-I ain't much used t-t-to this sorter th-thing, an' maybe I-I ain't got no r-r-right ter be a-botherin' you with m-my affairs, nohow. But you s-see it's th-this way. I 've sorter t-took a big l-l-likin' to that dancin' girl. Sh-she 's a darn sight n-n-nearer my s-style than anything I 've been up a-against fer s-some time.
Then s-some of the men heard of it, and there were bets on it ten to one he wouldn't do it and twenty to one he couldn't do it. So Percy decided to try. Father was so afraid that some of the campers and guides would help him that he had notices sent out at Mr. Willoughby's suggestion offering a reward if Percy could be shown to have asked any assistance.
He had already discovered that the panic had been caused by a false cry of "Wolf" raised by one of the fence rider's companions. "S-some one hitched it to a post," Blister suggested. "Ride him, puncher," urged Bob. "Stick to yore saddle if he does buck." Jud came off the fence sheepishly. "I was aimin' to go get help," he explained. "Where was you going for it to Denver?" asked Blister.
"I w-was c-coming up with s-some t-tea for you and and th-there I s-saw another man," he jerked out, overcome by the pathos of it. "I th-threw it overboard." "But supposing there had been sixteen men, why shouldn't I talk to them?" "I d-don't w-want you to. I w-wanted to talk to you." "Well!" She could find nothing else to say in her astonishment.