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Updated: June 5, 2025
But we wasn't figurin' t' attack you on the trail, same as th' Injuns did an' failed. We wasn't figurin' ter do no shootin'. Even allowin' as we'd attacked the wagons an' killed the drivers an' young Rube an' an' you, it wouldn't ha' bin easy fer us t' carry away the goods.
"This guy's talkin' through his hat," he sneered. "I ain't allowin' that I branded any of his cattle." Watkins smiled. "There don't seem to be nothin' to this case a-tall not a-tall. There ain't nobody goin' to be took into custody by me for stealin' cattle unless they're ketched with the goods an' that ain't been proved so far." He turned to Hollis.
That fellow settin' sideways to us is Texas Blanca." "What's he callin' himself 'Texas' for?" queried the bartender. "He looks more like a greaser." "Breed, I reckon," offered the proprietor. "Claims to have punched cows in Texas before he come here." "What's he allowin' to be now?" "Nobody knows. Used to own the Star Dakota's brand. Sold out to Dakota five years ago.
That Jerry mule, hatin' me an' allowin' to make me all the grief he can, sneakingly leaves the trail some'ers after I turns him an' touches him up with the lash. An' now Tom an' Jerry is shorely hid out an' lost a whole lot. It's nothin' but Jerry's notion of revenge on me. "I camps two days where I'm at, an rounds up the region for the trooants.
A Hindoo right from Hindoostan, and I felt kinder sorry for him. A heathen sot right in the midst of them folks of refinement, and culture, who had spent their hull lives a tryin' to fix over the world, and make it good. There had been quite a firm speech made against allowin' foreigners on our shores.
Now, allowin' I did take one more chanct, and make up to that oldest girl, we'd look fine, wouldn't we, takin' a weddin' trip in this here wagon, and not on no railroad!" Constance was smiling now. "I've got her gentled and comin' along right easy now," thought Tom Osby to himself. "I knowed a feller up in Vegas onct," he went on, "got married and went plumb to New York, towering around.
You see, daddy won't be in shape to do anything for quite a spell." "I'll give you a job on my ranch, an' pay fair wages." "Then we'll be glad to stop." "All right, my son. You shall take your own time about comin', and I'll hold the job open till you get here. Now I'm allowin' to lend you that broncho, so you can get back in case the old man grows worse.
I knows all about it, for I'm obleeged to be in on the deal from soda to hock. "It's mighty likely a month before the time Tucson Jennie breaks through Dave's lines this a-way. Dave an' me's due to go over towards the Tres Hermanas about some cattle. Likewise thar's an English outfit allowin' they'll go along some, to see where they've been stackin' in heavy on some ranch lands.
I tell you what, son, allowin' that I seen enough killin' in my time so as just seein' it don't set too hard on my chest, that mess down to Sterling made me plumb sick to my stummick. I'm wonderin' what would 'a' happened if Sterling hadn't made that fight and the I.W.W. had run loose. It ain't what we did. That had to be did.
"To make certain Ellis is got rid of, an' headed homeward happy, Cherokee pulls on a little poker with Ellis; an' he takes in Dan Boggs on the play, makin' her three-handed, that a-way for a blind. Dan is informed of the objects of the meetin', an' ain't allowin' to more'n play a dummy hand tharin.
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