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Well, son, everybody's plumb willin' an' glad to see her. An' for that matter, splittin' even, so's the infant." "That's straight, son; you shorely should have seen Jack Moore," continued the Old Cattleman, after a brief pause, as he hitched his chair into a comfortable position; "not seein' Jack is what any gent might call deeprivation.
Thar's a dozen different range brands in the bunch, mebby, and we needs a road-brand common to 'em all, so in case of stampedes on our trip to the no'th we knows our cattle ag'in an' can pick 'em out from among the local cattle which they takes to minglin' with. It's shorely work, markin' big strong steers that-away!
"Wall," said one, "if you can swing a rattler by the tail, all right. But watch his haid." Friend Jenks paced on with me to our fire. "We were keepin' cases on you, and so was he. He saw that practice damn, how he did crane! She was givin' you pointers, eh?" "Yes; she wanted amusement." "It'll set Bonnie Bravo to thinkin' it'll shorely set him to thinkin'," Jenks chuckled, mouthing his pipe.
"We've got to stand here to the death," said Henry. "You're shorely right," said Shif'less Sol. The hands of the two comrades met in a grip of steel. The other three were called and were told of the plan, which met with their full approval. Then the news was carried to Carpenter, who quickly agreed that their course was the wisest.
Once in a while some outfit would get mad and go chargin' off dry; but it was a long, long way to the Springs, and mighty hot and dusty. Texas Pete and his one lonesome water hole shorely did a big business. Late one afternoon me and Gentleman Tim was joggin' along above Texas Pete's place.
"I think I kin see wild flowers down thar bloomin' among the bushes, an' ain't that grass an' them trees fine? an' that is shorely the best creek I've seen. Its water is so pure it looks like silver. I've a notion, Henry, that this wuz the Garden o' Eden." "That's an odd idea of yours, Sol. How can you prove it's so?" "An' how can you prove it ain't so? An' so we're back whar we started.
But dere's shorely gwine be ructions 'fore yo' does, er my name ain't Jerome Randolph Lee Stewart." "I have to ride into Annapolis, this morning, Aunt Katherine. Would you like to drive in?" asked Peggy, when the unpleasant breakfast was ended. "I should be delighted to, dear," answered Mrs. Stewart sweetly, striving to recover lost ground, for she felt that a good bit had been lost.
Texas is still in a fog, speakin' mental, an' about bled to death; while them exhortin' people is outen their minds entire. "In no time thar's a dozen of us lined out for Cherokee. Do we locate him? Which I should say we shorely discovers him. Thar's a bullet through his laig, an' thar he is with his back ag'in a rock wall, his Winchester to the front, his eyes glitterin', a-holdin' the canyon.
She's tall an' strong for a Mexican, with a voice like velvet, graceful as a mountain lion, an' with eyes that's soft an' deep an' black, like a deer's. She's shorely a lovely miracle, the Donna Anna is, an' as dark an' as warm an' as full of life as a night in Joone. She's of the grande, for the mule she's ridin', gent-fashion, is worth forty ponies.
He may alter his system an' stand way up with the angels an' seraphs, an' if words from me could fix it, I'd shorely stack 'em in. I would say further that after consultin' with Billy Burns, who keeps the Red Light, we has, in honor of the dead an' to mark the occasion of his cashin' in, agreed upon a business departure of interest to all. This departure Mister Burns will state.
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