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"I'm not allowin' for whether he's really a rustler or not. It just won't do, because these fellers out here ain't goin' to be afraid of you." "See here, Hoden. If a man's going to be afraid of me at all, that trick will make him more afraid of me. I know it. It works out.
"'An' while I'm at it, sleep an' nose-paint seizes me, an' my light goes plumb out. I rolls over behind the bayonet-bush an' raises a snore. As for that Frosty, he waits a while; then he pulls his freight, allowin' I'm too deliberate about comin' back, for him. "'It must have made them coyotes stop an' consider a whole lot about what I be.
Martha Gordon met her husband at the door. She had seen the volunteer gun crew filing past on the pike. "What is it, Caleb?" she asked anxiously. He made no attempt to deceive her. "The railroaders are allowin' to take what the Major wouldn't sell 'em the right of way through his land down the valley. Buddy brought the word." "Well?" she said, love and fear hardening her heart.
"'It falls out that where we fords the Pecos we runs up on a Mexican Plaza the "Plaza Chico" they-all calls it an' we camps thar by the river a week, givin' our cattle a chance to roll an' recooperate up on the grass an' water. "'Then we goes p'intin' out for the settin' sun ag'in, allowin' to strike the Rio Grande some'ers below Albuquerque.
Bein' a sailorman myself, it ain't likely as I'd say anythin' ag'in 'em; but if the truth must be told, I'll say this that while it'll never do, not at no price, for to let sailors git the upper hand, there's many a man as has giv' the helm into the hands of his old woman and made a better v'yage thereby; and I don't mind sayin', sir, that havin' while follerin' the water got into the habit of allowin' her for to be skipper in the house durin' my short stoppin's on shore, it got for to be so much the custom, that since comin' home for a full due I ain't never tried for to break away from it; and though human natur' is falliable, and she does make mistakes, especially about the hystin', on the whole, and by and large, I judges I've been a gainer by it, as I believes at least eight men out of ten would be if they took the hint accordin' and went and done likewise.
Leger knows that a man of Colonel Willett's rank was eager to take the chances of leaving the fortification to summon assistance, he must believe the garrison is in sore straits, an' therefore it is that I believe the mistake was made in allowin' him to go out when there were plenty of others here willin' to take the chances."
About midnight a half dozen of the bucks comes scoutin' 'round their camp, allowin' to a moral certainty they'll see what's loose an' little enough for 'em to pull. The aborigines makes the error of goin' up the wind from Moon's mules, which is grazin' about with hobbles on, an' them sagacious anamiles actooally has fits.
Barnes? Why she and me been buddies for nigh three years, and she took my 9.30 north car every Sunday morning, rain or shine, just as reg'lar, and was the only one I ever let stand out on my platform, bein' strictly agin all rules, and my old partner Hornheim was fired for allowin' it, it ain't six months since. But what could I do when she asked me, please, Mr.
He's come spraddlin' into the West full of hope, an' allowin' he's goin' to get rich in a day. An' now when he finds how the West is swift an' hard to beat, he's homesick to death. "But Ellis ain't got the dinero. Now Cherokee likes him for Ellis is a mighty decent form of shorthorn an' concloodes, all by himse'f, he'll stand in on Ellis' destinies an' fix 'em up a lot.
She nodded, adding: "But that didn't make no differ'; I had to come anyway. He run me out, paw did." "Heavens!" ejaculated Tom, prickling now with a new sensation. "And you haven't any place to stay?" She shook her head. "No. I was allowin' maybe your paw'd let me sleep where you-uns keep the hawsses jest for a little spell till I could make out what-all I'm goin' to do."
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