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Then he turned sharply on his heel, caught his horse and swung into the saddle. He hesitated for the part of a second before spurring his horse a little closer. "You kin take a message to your boss you locoed sheepherder. Tell her it's from an old friend that knew her when she was kickin' in her cradle.
The Major looked a trifle disconcerted, but in his rôle of Master of Ceremonies continued: "I'll make you acquainted with Mr. Teeters." The two men nodded coldly. To break the strained silence the Major observed: "Got a boy helpin' you, I notice." "Girl," replied the sheepherder briefly. "Girl? Oh, I see! Them overalls deceived me. Daughter, I presume." "Pardner," laconically.
That there's Andy's rope " "If you look at my saddle, you'll find my rope right where it belongs," Andy retorted. "I ain't sheepherder enough to leave it kicking around under foot. That rope belongs to his nibs that just rode off. When he caught up his horse again after dinner, he throwed his rope down while he saddled up, and then went off and forgot it.
"Mh-hm I thought maybe you'd run up against a hostile jackrabbit, or something," Pink purred, and went back to his place on the bench. "Haw-haw-haw-w-w!" came Big Medicine's tardy bellow. "That's more reasonable than the sheepherder story, by cripes!" Andy looked at them much as he had stared up at the sky before he began to swear speechlessly, with a trembling of the muscles around his mouth.
I'm gettin' around to the point, Miss Miss Willie, in my own brick fashion. I've stood about all I can stand these last two days and somethin's got to happen. The suspense hereabouts is enough to hang a sheepherder. Miss Willie" he lassooed her hand by main force "just say the word. You need somebody to take your part all your life long. Will you mar "
Toomey braided a wisp of hair to an infinitesimal end and said firmly: "Jap, we've simply got to do something! Can't you borrow?" "Borrow! I couldn't throw a rock inside the city limits without hitting some one to whom I owe money. Come again, Old Dear," mockingly. "Wouldn't Mormon Joe " "I'd starve before I'd ask that sheepherder!" His face darkened to ugliness.
Honest to grandma, I've saw the time when a little foot-warmin' done a sheepherder a whole lot uh good; and, it looks to me, by cripes, as if this here feller needed a dose to gentle him down. You git the fire started. That's all I want you t' do, Happy. Some uh you boys help me rope him like him and that other jasper over there done to Andy. C'mon, Andy it ain't goin' to take long!"
"I don't talk about religion much," he replied earnestly, "but there's somethin' come up the last few days that set me thinkin' pretty serious." Mrs. Taylor looked her curiosity. "It's a turrible thing," Teeters wagged his head solemnly, "to see a feller layin' on his death-bed denyin' they's a Hereafter." "Why, how dreadful! Who is it?" "A sheepherder. He says they ain't no hell nor nothin'."
If we don't get some kind of hobbles on that girl, she's goin' to jump the fence and go back home." This being the Story of a Sheepherder, Two Warm Personal Friends, and their Love-letter to a Beautiful Queen
"By gosh, yuh made me dance when I struck town. Make 'im dance!" "You go off and lay down!" commanded Billy again, and to emphasize his words leaned and emptied the contents of his glass neatly inside the collar of the sheepherder. "Cool down, yuh Ba-ba-black-sheep!"
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