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Of course Dallas was not Buddy's home town, but it had been his point of departure into the world, and it was the home of his bank account, hence some pride of proprietorship was pardonable. It gave him such a pleasing sense of importance to adopt the city as his own that he adopted everything and everybody in it.
Dick had gone to some trouble to alter an old pair of chaps so that Buddy could wear them, and his star was in the ascendant; a pair of chaps with fringes were, in Buddy's estimation, a surer pledge of friendship and favor than the privilege of feeding a lame horse. Buddy was rather terrible, sometimes.
Father and some of the cowboys heard and came after, riding hard and shooting as they came. Buddy's pink apron fluttered a signal flag in the arms of his captor, and so it happened that the bullets whistled close to that particular Indian. He gathered a handful of calico between Buddy's shoulders, held him aloft like a puppy, leaned far over and deposited him on the ground.
All the other boys and girls who are friends of mine have them, and I don't see why I can't." For you see guinea pigs never have tails. Why that is I don't know, except, maybe, it's better that way in hot weather, but, anyhow, they have no tails. "You don't need a tail," said Buddy's mamma. "Yes, I do, mother dear," he answered.
The talk had always been for all to hear who would. But when she tried again to slip her hand away from Buddy's the little boy pulled at it hard, and half opening his eyes, said sleepily, "Sylvie stay with Buddy Sylvie stay " Sylvia yielded weakly, said: "Yes sh! sh! Sister'll stay. Go to sleep, Buddy."
Buddy's booted legs were thrown high, he was tossed aside like a thing of paper, but blind, half stunned, he scrambled back to his post.
His poise, his air of respectful but easy familiarity with this this angel raised him immensely in Buddy's esteem. Think of joking, chatting, making pretty speeches to an an angel! That was going some. The gall of it! They were talking about that big gasser of Gray's; the fire; the overflow; and the melodramatic occurrences of the past fortnight.
I think that miracle helped to fix the incident indelibly in Buddy's mind; that, and the bellowing of the cattle. It seemed a month to Buddy, but as he grew older he learned that it was three days they went without water. The first day he did not remember especially, except that mother had talked about clean aprons that night, and failed to produce any. The second he recalled quite clearly.
"You have common sense, at least, and that's something you can't get in school. Men wear smooth from contact with one another, and it is time you got in touch with something bigger than mere drilling. If you're willing, I'll take you to Wichita Falls with me." "Willing?" Buddy's eyes sparkled. Guiltily he confessed: "It's been pretty lonesome out here with the scorpions.
In his opinion, Buddy Brown-Thrasher was the most annoying of all the feathered songsters. He often went out of his way to interrupt Buddy's evening-song. Well, it is not surprising that Buddy Brown-Thrasher should be upset by Jasper Jay's provoking visits.
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