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Updated: May 29, 2025
The man struck the shrewd blow he had purposely withheld for so long, and Buck crumpled up and went down, knocked utterly senseless. "He's no slouch at dog-breakin', that's wot I say," one of the men on the wall cried enthusiastically. "Druther break cayuses any day, and twice on Sundays," was the reply of the driver, as he climbed on the wagon and started the horses.
Emerging half a minute later he blurted out his tale of woe: "Every time I blows myself an' don't drink it all in town some slab-sided maverick freezes to it. It's gone," he added, dismally. "Too bad, Billy but what is it?" asked Skinny. "What is it? Wha'd yu think it was, you emaciated match? Jewelry? Cayuses? It's whisky two simoleons' worth. Some-thin's allus wrong.
"You walked right in and took your story in both hands and knocked her down with it. Haines, of all the ornery, thick-headed cayuses I ever see, you're the most out-beatin'est!" "I couldn't help it." "Why not?" "When I went in she took one look at me and then jumped up and stood as straight as a pine tree. "'Lee, she said, 'what have you heard?"
The gathering of rich harvests of furs had begun, and British and American fur-traders were seeking these treasures on every hand. But at the beginning of these harvests the Cayuses were sickening and dying, and the mission was powerless to stay the pestilence. A secret council of Cayuses and half-breeds was held one night under the hunter's moon near Walla Walla, or else on the Umatilla.
They remained in their places while Harlan understanding that Poggs and Lanky would not accept his invitation spoke gruffly to them: "This camp ain't got any room for skunks that go to framin' up on any of the boys. Today you done it to me tomorrow you'd try to pull it off on some other guy. "You're travelin' pronto. You're gettin' your cayuses.
I'll take care o' the cayuses." On the ground, scattered among the tents, and in the shade of the cook wagon, were some twenty or thirty herders. Spurs jingled at the heels of their tall boots, and most of them wore bandannas of silk or cotton looped gracefully about their necks.
"Crows, Umbiquas, and Flat-heads, Cayuses, Bonnaxes, and Callapoos can hunt all together, and rest together; they are the blackbirds and the parrots; they must do so, else the eagle should destroy them during the day, or the hedgehog during the night. "Now, Owato Wanisha, or his Manitou, has offered a bold thing.
In less time than it takes to describe it, the horses tethered near the lodges were mounted and twenty riders were in pursuit. But the Bannock was considerably in advance now, and the fine black horse he rode held its own nobly. Out over the prairie flew the pursuing Cayuses, yelling like demons, the fugitive turning now and then to utter a shout of derision.
"I wisht Compadre could git a smell uh that there fried chicken; it would put new life into him, which he needs after tangling with that there coyote 'tother night." "We ought to unhitch and give the horses a feed," Luck suggested. "Any particular place?" "Well, you know where to put them cayuses as well as I do," Applehead mumbled, with his mouth full of cake.
Some of the younger braves at the head of the Cayuse train dashed toward it, yelling and whooping in the wildest manner. Through the encampment rang an answering shout. "The Cayuses! the Cayuses! and the white medicine-man!" The news spread like wildfire, and men came running from all directions to greet the latest arrivals.
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