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A few hours ago this Mexican overheard me telling your sister what I proposed to do to North and the MacMorroghs. That's why he Ouch! Roy; that is my arm you're trying to twist out of joint, man!" "It's all right," laughed the Louisianian; "it is only a crazy-bone bump that you got when the bronc' threw you. Say, Ford; I thought you claimed to know how to ride a horse!"
"Why, you cross between the Last Rose of Summer and a bobtailed flush!" says I, "what d'yer mean? What's got into you? Get out of my daylight, you dog-robber, or I'll walk the little horse around your neck like a three-ringed circus. Come, pull your freight!" It seems that this swatty had been chucked out of the third story of Frenchy's dance emporium by Bronc.
"I'd let you ride my horse and take Meigs's old skate myself," I said to Brower, "but when you first get on him this bronc of mine is a rip-humming tail twister. Ain't he, Meigs?" "He's a bad caballo," corroborated Meigs. "Does he buck?" queried Brower, indifferently. "Every known fashion. Bites, scratches, gouges, and paws. Want to try him?" "I got a headache," replied Brower, grouchily.
The others veered off to the right. They disappeared into some blackberry bushes on the edge of the mesa. Whether from here they continued to the valley the punchers in the willows could not tell. "Some lucky getaway," Dud panted. "Thought I was a goner sure when they plugged my bronc," said Reeves. He took a careful shot at the sagebush behind which the Indian had taken refuge.
"Do do they always kick and buck as we saw them do just now?" questioned Miss Briggs apprehensively. The guide shook his head and grinned. "They don't like to be roped, that's all. No bronco does. They'll be as all right as a bronc' can be, so long as you don't use the spur or get the critters stubborn."
She drank deeply, refilled the hat, and backed out past Lennon to water the eager pony. "I'll thank you to fill the canteens and give the bronc as much more as he can drink," she directed. "There's firewood on around that point of rocks. Keep your gun handy." Lennon was already drinking from a refilled canteen. He found the cliff-shaded water of the spring pure and deliciously cool.
"Jest after yer put ther finish onto Shan an', say, that wuz a beaut, if any one should ask you I see Norris an' ther jock makin' fer ther gate, leadin' ther magpie bronc. I thinks they're goin' ter put him in ther corral fer yer, an' didn't pay much 'tention ter him." "Then he's up at the corral?" "No, he ain't. He's foggin' along to'rds ther Wichita Mountains as fast as he kin go."
Kit nodded approval and whispered to Bet: "Matt forgot he was driving a car; he thought he was riding a bronc." "I am greatly relieved," said the professor quietly. "Speed is the curse of the age. We should take lessons from the Indians." "That's all you know about Injins, Injins ain't so slow as you might think. I've seen 'em with plenty of ginger in 'em.
High Chin's eyes narrowed. "Was he ridin' that horse?" And he pointed to the black. Lorry admitted that he had found the horse tied in the brush near the Notch. High Chin swung round. "You fork your bronc and get busy. There's eighty head and over strayin' in here, and the old man ain't payin' you to entertain hobos. I'll herd this hombre to camp."
"Snowin'," observed one of the chronic visitors of the saloon door. There are always two or three of such in every Western gathering. "One of you boys saddle my bronc," suddenly requested Alfred, and began to examine his firearms by the light of the saloon lamp. "Yo' ain't aimin' to set out to-night?" they asked, incredulously. "I am.
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