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"Buck's got three, I got two and Skinny's got one. That's six, an' Billy is seven. They's five more," he replied. "How'd yu know?" queried Johnny as he filled his flask at the horse trough. "Because they's twelve cayuses behind the hotel. That's why." "They might git away on 'em," suggested the practical Johnny. "Can't. They's all cashed in."
Then he buttoned the two lower buttons of his vest and pulled the garment in question over the protruding butt. For a space of time they rode the bottom of the draw. Where a few heavy willows grew about a tiny spring Racey pulled in. "We'll leave the cayuses here," said he. "We're right close in back of Marie's shack."
You can pack two of 'em, and ride the third." "Good enough," Ben agreed. "And after I once get in, I'd like to turn back two of them, and maybe all three to save the hire and the bother of taking care of them. I suppose, after the fashion of cayuses, they'll leg it right home." "Just a little faster than a dog. Horses don't much care to grub their food out of them spruce forests.
Behind it were the friendly Cayuses, but not a weapon could be seen among them. The chief saw all; saw too that his enemies only waited for him to pronounce sentence upon the captive, that that was the preconcerted signal for attack. Now among some of the tribes sentence was pronounced not by word but by gesture; there was the gesture for acquittal, the gesture for condemnation.
Our train consisted of six wagons and fourteen yoke of oxen, with three cayuses, in charge of a French half-breed and his son, a lad of about sixteen. We made slow enough progress, but every hour of the long day, from the dim, gray, misty light of dawn to the soft glow of shadowy evening, was full of new delights to me.
Then the Bannock said that he wanted to see the Cayuse chief, Snoqualmie, in the council-lodge, for the chief of the Bannocks had sent a "talk" to the Cayuses. The warrior left him to speak with Snoqualmie. In a short time he returned, saying that the chief and the warriors had gone to the council-lodge and were ready to hear the "talk" that their brother, the chief of the Bannocks, had sent them.
"That Monty hoss o' yours seems sort o' lame, this mornin'," said Bill. "Reck'n one o' th' other cayuses must 'a' kicked him, or somep'n. Dunno as he c'd stand th' trip." And, sure enough, Monty limped slightly as he moved about the corral.
And when one bogged he blocked the trail till it was clear again; nor did the man live who crowded him at such time. "At the end of the trail a man who had killed fifty horses wanted to buy, but we looked at him and at our own, mountain cayuses from eastern Oregon.
They encamped in the little open prairie on the other side of the river, and mustered about six hundred men. The first war-party had overthrown and dispersed the Bonnaxes, as they were on their way to join the Flat-heads; and the former tribe not being able to effect the intended junction, threw itself among the Cayuses and Nez-perces.
Railroads an' dams an' hotels with bath tubs for every six or seven rooms, an' resterawnts with filleedegree palms an' leather chairs an' slick eats is eatin' the gizzard outen her. Railroads is all right in their place which is where folks ain't got no cayuses to fork an' therefore has to hoof it or or ride the damn railroad."
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