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Updated: June 24, 2025
The Maluka was riding a little behind, at the head of the pack-team, but we could see neither him nor the team, and Mac looked triumphantly round as the staunch little horses pushed on through the forest of grass that swirled and bent and swished and reeled all about the buck-board. "Didn't I tell you?" he said. "This is what we call long grass"; and he asked if I could "see any track now."
"That's me," said the tall man who was leaning on the bar near me, "that's my name." "Are you the Williams that stopped Judge Shannon yesterday?" "I don't know his name," came the careless reply, "but I stopped a man in a buck-board." Plucking out my revolver, and pointing it low down on his breast, I said: "I'm sent to arrest you; you must come with me to Kiota."
"No, she's Mother Marvin's girl. She's away to Plymouth to school. Stand here a minute till I back up the buck-board." The buck-board is the only vehicle possible over these mountain-roads. It is the volante of the Franconia range, and rides over everything from a bowlder to a wind-slash.
This very day, when she'd lots rather stay to home and visit with you, she's give orders for Ephraim to have the buck-board got ready to take her twenty miles to see a neighbor who's sick. She's fixing a basket of things now, and is in a hurry. So that's the reason she didn't come to keep you company herself. Have another piece of chicken do." "Thank you, no.
A Sunday had gone by and Alf had seen Millie, but she was riding to church with Dan Stuart. One evening Parker sent us word to be in Purdy early the next day. And at dawn the next morning the buck-board stood ready for the journey. Mrs. Jucklin had worked nearly the night through, baking bread and roasting chickens to tide us over the trip.
All there was of Palomitas was on deck, and Becker'd come over from Santa Cruz de la Cañada, and old man Bouquet from Pojuaque, and Sam and Marcus Elbogen had driven across on their buck-board from San Juan and Mexicans had come in from all around in droves.
However, thoughts of Maude continued to possess me. She still appeared the most desirable of beings, and a fortnight after my repulse, without any excuse at all, I telegraphed the George Hutchinses that I was coming to pay them a visit. Mrs. George, wearing a knowing smile, met me at the station in a light buck-board. "I've asked Maude to dinner," she said....
Between his sobs, the young civilian told him that the outlaws had hitched in both teams and taken also the spare mules and the buck-board. They had lifted the Harvey girls into the Concord, the safe and Pasqual Morales into the paymaster's ambulance, while the wounded men and Moreno's people probably were put on the open wagon.
But Mac was blissfully unconscious of the severity. "Risks!" he said. "Why, it wasn't wide enough for anything to happen, bar a ducking. If you rush it, the horses are pushed across before they know they're off their feet." "Bar a ducking, indeed!" But Mac was out of the buck-board, shouting back, "Hold hard there!
He's just Jim, but I've always called him Uncle Jim ever since I was a little girl. And I love him dearly; don't I, Uncle Jim?" and she turned toward him as he entered the door carrying her bundle, followed by her father with the kerosene lamp, Marvin having brought it out to help Jim unload the buck-board. "That's what ye allus says, baby-girl," answered Jim, "so I got to believe it.
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