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Whiskey Bill is a racer, not a mule team," Miller said, laughing. Steve loosened the center-fire cinch of his pony's saddle. He noted that there was no real geniality in the fat man's mirth. It was a surface thing designed to convey an effect of good-fellowship. Back of it lay the chill implacability of the professional gambler.
Around his waist ran loosely a broad, black leather belt supporting a heavy black holster, in which lay its walnut-handled burden, a .44 caliber six-shooter; and thirty center-fire cartridges peeked from their loops, fifteen on a side. His boots, the soles thin and narrow and the heels high, were black and of the finest leather.
Then the tramp and the girl, oblivious to everything else, discussed rawhide riatas as compared with the regular three-strand stock rope, or lariat, center-fire, three quarter, and double rigs, swell forks and old Visalia trees, spade bits and "U" curbs, neither willing, even lightly, to admit the other's superiority of chosen rig. The boy Collie listened intently and a trifle jealously.
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