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Updated: May 29, 2025
"We're cutting loose, Bud, at last and piling up the shining ducats! You're to gather up a hundred of the most likely cayuses you've got and shove them down to the Lower End. We're selling pretty heavily to Doan, Rockwell & Haight." A new flicker came into Lee's eyes. Then they went hard as polished agate. "I didn't quite get you, Hampton," he said softly. "You say we're selling a hundred horses?
Yu remembered Santa Fe an' it rankled in yu. Not being man enough to notify me that yu'd shoot on sight an' being afraid my friends would get yu if yu plugged me on th' sly, yu tried to make out that me an' Red rustled yore cayuses. That meant a lynching with me an' Red in th' places of honor. Yu never saw Red afore, but yu didn't care if he went with me.
Frosty caught on, and went to work, too, and in half a minute we had them free of the wagon and stripped of everything but their bridles. They would have as good a show as we, and maybe better. I looked back to see what King was doing. He was having troubles of his own, trying to keep one of his cayuses on all its feet at once.
Jimmy looked up. "I heard tell that they make glue outen cayuses, sometimes," he remarked. Shorty's eyes flashed. The loss of the horse had been rankling in his heart all day. "Does they git yu frequent?" he asked. His voice sounded hard. "Oh, 'bout as frequent as yu lose a cayuse, I reckon," replied Jimmy hotly. Shorty's hand streaked to his holster and Jimmy followed his lead.
The other instantly wheeled his horse, rode back to his band, and apparently reported what Snoqualmie had said; for they all set up a taunting shout, and after flinging derisive words and gestures at the Cayuses, turned around and dashed at full gallop down the trail, leaving the Cayuses covered with a cloud of dust. And then Cecil knew that the spectacle meant war.
He's home for a visit, an' he kinda wanted to have a dance an' meet the folks, seein' he's been away quite a spell and kain't stay long. "Yes, mom, he's goin' back to college first the week. "Hey! I wisht you'd tie up yore cayuses other side the shack. Folks'll be comin' around here for their supper, and they don't wanta git their faces kicked off whilst they're huntin' grub to fill 'em.
At the same moment, the Cayuses in the rear bared their weapons and shouted back the Willamette war-cry. The rebels were staggered. The trap was sprung on them before they knew that there was a trap. Those in front shrank back from the iron warriors of Multnomah, those in the rear wavered before the fierce Cayuses. They paused, a swaying flood of humanity, caught between two lines of rock.
They mustered about fifteen thousand warriors, from the Umbiquas, Callapoos, Cayuses, Nez-perces, Bonnaxes, Flat-heads, and some of the Crows, who had not yet gained prudence from their last "brushing."
His feet had never known the luxury of a factory or home-knitted stocking since he had graduated from the home crib, but were put off with gunny sacking which had already seen active service as nose bags for the cayuses. "If one wishes to acquire wealth in this world," he would say, "one must make a great many personal sacrifices."
"But these are broncos." "Yes; I believe that is what you call them. Monsieur Bill of Buffalo, New York, sent them as a present to Madame Rosalie when he was in Paris." There they were two ewe-necked cayuses one a pinto with a wall-eye; the other a dun with a black line down the back. I challenged Antoine to saddle them and we would ride.
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