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Updated: June 17, 2025
"Good afternoon, gentlemen; ride your horses right into the corral, and the boys'll take the saddles off." "Where is Williams?" asked Delmar as he slid from his horse. "Gone to town; anything I can do for you? I'm his boss." "You tell Mr.
"My gracious! think of havin' my head shaved and marched off the way that feller's bein'." He walked into the cabin and stirred up the beans. "The water's biled off," said he to himself, "but they hain't been in nigh as hot a place as I have. I guess the boys'll have to do with a plain dinner to day. I'm not goin' to stir out o' this place agin unless they're with me."
Also, he had refused to let the boys pay his fine. "He's clean looney," Strothers summed up. "Won't listen to reason. Says he'll serve the time out. He's been tankin' up too regular, I guess. His wheels are buzzin'. Here, he give me this note for you. Any time you want anything send for me. The boys'll all stand by Bill's wife. You belong to us, you know. How are you off for money?"
Thar's been no one shot for a month in either Red Dog or Wolfville an' I'm reedic'lous free of patients. An' if the boys'll promise to hold themse'fs an' their guns in abeyance for a week or so, an' not go framin' up excooses for my presence abrupt, I figgers that a few days idlin' about the ranges, an' mebby a riot or two roundin' up this cow-demon, will expand me an' do me good.
Looks like Kid just came in with the mail." "He started after it when I rode out to look for a couple of strays," said Slim. "Beckon he jest come back. You boys'll hear more partic'lars now, I reckon." "Particulars of what?" asked Nort. "Was that what you started to say when Bud shot the rattler?"
"If you want to go in on this deal," he said quizzically, "maybe it'll be just as well if you talk to the bunch yourself about it, Chip. You ain't any tin, angel, but I'm willing to admit the boys'll believe you; a whole lot quicker than they would me." "Yes and they'll probably hand me a bunch of pity for getting stung by you," Chip retorted.
Miss Bemont, she't lives over on Woodchuck Hill, she's got a lot o' little turkeys in a coop; I guess you'd better go 'long over there, an' ef you can't get none o' her'n, by that time our boys'll be to hum, an' I'll set 'em arter our'n; they'll buckle right to; it's good sport huntin' little turkeys; an' I guess you'll hev to stop, comin' home, so's to let me know ef you'll hev 'em."
"Oh, you'll see him all right all right," O'Brien returned with a laugh, while the men at the bar grinned over at the card players. "Guess you boys'll see him later all you need." Then his eyes flashed in Charlie's direction, and he winked at those near him. "Maybe some folks around here'll hate the sight of him before long."
Blackburn grinned wickedly when informed of Gary Warden's refusal to keep Lefingwell's agreement. "Didn't I hit him right," he sneered. "I aim to be able to tell a coyote first pop, whether he's sneakin' in the sagebrush or settin' in a office. They ain't no difference. No cars, eh? Bah! If you say the word, me an' the boys'll hit the breeze to town an' run Warden and Simmons out!
"Good morning," I said in the air, but no one answered me. Mastering my irritation, I went forward to undo the hitching-strap, but Martin, divining my intention, rose and loosened the buckle. As I reached him, he spoke in a low whisper, keeping his back turned to me: "Shoot off a joke quick. The boys'll let up on you then. It'll be all right. Say somethin', for God's sake!"
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