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Seven black ones in the coulee!" Men who know well the West are familiar with that facetious call. "Ah, what's the matter with yuh?" Irish raised a rumpled, brown head from his pillow, and blinked sleepily at him. "I've been dreaming I was a sheepherder, all night." "Well, you've got the swellest chance in the world to 'make every dream cone true, dearie," Pink retorted.
Billy's voice trembled a little, because of the murder-lust that gripped him. "Well, pretty soon, I'll start in and tell yuh all about it maybe. Right now, I'm going t' give a new one one that yuh can easy name and do what yuh damn' please about." Whereupon he did as he had done once before when the offender had been a sheepherder.
"Your father was over this morning." "Yes, I know." "He thinks my education's advanced far enough to trust me with a band of sheep. I'm going to have charge of the flock I've been running here with Dad Frazer." "I heard about it." "And you don't congratulate me on becoming a paid sheepherder, my first step on the way to flockmaster!"
The moon was up before they came upon a tent shining in the cold silvery light. Beside it was a sheetiron stove, a box, the ashes of a camp fire, and a side of bacon hanging from the limb of a stunted pine. Cautiously they stole forward. The camp was for the time deserted. No doubt its owner, a Mexican sheepherder in the employ of Fendrick and Dominguez, was out somewhere with his flock.
I was the daughter of 'Jezebel of the Sand Coulee' and the protegée of a 'sheepherder. "I did not know you then as I do now and your pose of superiority impressed me; I took you at your own valuation and overestimated you; so I was all but crushed by your condemnation. I was like a child that is whipped without knowing for what it is being punished." She paused a moment before going on.
"Yuh wouldn't ketch me goin' t' jail for no doggone sheepherder. They oughta be a bounty on 'en by rights." "Seems queer they'd be right back here this morning, after being hazed out yesterday afternoon," said Andy Green thoughtfully. "Looks like they're plumb anxious to build a lot of trouble for themselves."
The bartender, wiping the bar after an unsteady sheepherder, was careful to leave a generous margin around the person of Charming Billy who was at that moment asserting with much emphasis: "She's a young thing, and cannot leave her mother."
I really don't care for anything in the way of refreshment. I merely came in to find a friend who has promised to spend the night with me. It is getting along toward bedtime. Have your fun, gentlemen, if you must but I am really too tired to join you." "Make 'im dance!" yelled the sheepherder, giving over the attempt to find the sum of twelve and fourteen.
"Now there's that damned sheepherder that broke us up in business," said he. "It was him that got us into this fix. If he hadn't lied like a infernal pirate, and got Dan Anderson to thinkin' that the girl and this lawyer feller Barkley was engaged to each other on the side, why Dan wouldn't have flared up and busted the railroad deal, and let the girl get away, and gone and got hisself shot."
"Jensen was only a Swede and a sheepherder. This here committee's to protect men." Kelly chuckled. "Have it your own way," he said. "I'm not particular. As it is, there'll be plenty doing." For an hour or more the cattlemen went over the plan of their campaign, which worked out into simplicity itself.
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