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He worked in the dust of the smaller corral, with Croaker’s help, adapting his knowledge of eastern gentling the way he had mentally planned it during the days since he had accepted the job. With the excited and frightened colt roped to the steady mule Drew tried to think horse, feel horse, even be horse, shutting out all the rest of the world just as he had on the day of the race.
If you'll go, you shall have the pinto colt that I told you about, a little side saddle of your own, and whenever you feel like it, you can get on it and ride down to see all the folks." The prospects were so alluring that I went at once with Leanna, who was to get me ready for the journey. Leanna did not share my enthusiasm.
She had not yet reached self-consciousness in her regard for the young preacher she thought of him as a noble human being liable to death, and she chirped again and again to the flying colt, whose broad hoofs flung the snow in stinging showers against her face. A call at the doctor's house set him jogging out along the lanes, while she sent a telegram to Herman.
"Can't you?" drawled the New England voice. "You law-abiding, get-a-summons, act-of parliament lot of sons of Belial can't you? Now, look a-here, these Colt pistols I am selling " He took the pearler aside and could be heard talking earnestly in the corner. "See you load and see?" There were rapid clicks. "Simple, isn't it?
The Boers were throughout invisible, but two days later when the ground was revisited we found one dead burgher so that at any rate they lost more heavily than we. The Colt guns worked very well, and the effect of the fire of a whole battery of these weapons was a marked diminution in the enemy's musketry.
"You said too much about Overland Red the other night, when you was talkin' to Silent Saunders," said Williams. "He's tryin' to find out somethin'. I don't know what he's after. Keep your eye peeled and your teeth on the bit. That's all." "Oh, he's built all right, and he comes of good stock," said Brand Williams, nodding toward a bay colt that stood steaming in the sun.
He stuttered, he contradicted himself, he perspired, he all but wept Colt. Are you sure you had no spite against him? Deft. No. Colt. You are not sure, eh? This candid interpretation of his words knocked the defendant stupid. He made no reply, but looked utterly flabbergasted. Colt. Did he not provoke you? Did he not call you an idiot. Deft. He might. Colt. Of course he might. Deft. No.
The shading of the light gave me only a partial view of the fellow, but he was big, loose-jointed, having enormous shoulders, his face so hidden by a heavy mustache, and low drawn hat brim, I could scarcely perceive its outline. He appeared a typical rough, wearing high boots, with an ugly-looking Colt in a belt holster. "Where are you from?" I asked, surprised at this display of firearms.
He felt sorry that a citizen of the glorious United States should be prey for troublesome sheriffs, but he was sure that his duty to Texas called upon him never to submit to arrest at the hands of a Mexican. Remembering the Alamo, and still behind his Colt, he reached over and took up the shining weapon from the table and snapped it open on his knee.
And the same with shortening or making sail, the last man out of the rigging on each mast received a liberal application of the execrable colt to his shoulders. It certainly had the effect of making the men smart in a double sense, but it also made them, perhaps, the most discontented crew in the service.
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