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Updated: July 22, 2025
Indeed, one was moved to ask her if she would not prefer to be strapped on with a girth, and to offer his belt for the purpose; and the other took the opportunity to gird at the forgetfulness of the cow-drivers to furnish her with her own pillion.
In the abrupt pause in this headlong career it was difficult to sustain one's poise. Now and again, indeed, sheepish conscious glances were interchanged; for since the grievance of the cow-drivers had been publicly annulled and the horses of the Blue Lick Stationers had been restored in pure neighborly good-will, a resumption of the quarrel on the old invalid scores was impossible.
He sez, 'Somebody that won't be missed somebody not genteel enough to play loo with him after supper, sez X. 'Or too religious, sez I. 'Or can't sing a good song or tell a rousing tale, sez X. 'Or listen an' laugh in the right places at the gentleman's old cracks about the great world, sez I. 'He'll never let Ralph Emsden go, sez X. 'Jus' some poor body will do, sez I. 'Jus' man enough to be scalped by the Injuns if the red sticks take after him, sez X. 'Or have his throat cut if the cow-drivers feel rough yet, sez I. 'Jus' such a one ez me, sez X. 'Or me, sez I."
"It was he who shot the wolf and stampeded the herds, and the cow-drivers will quarrel with him when they would not have angry words with another ambassador. They will kill him! They will kill him!" "What for? Poaching? shooting their wolf?" "Any one else would be safe, grandfather except poor Ralph!" "Go yourself then. May-day!" "I would, grandfather! I would not be afraid!"
"Why, God-a-mercy, child," cried the superintendent of the ranch, "this news settles all scores; when it comes to a foreign foe the colonists are brothers." "And besides," admitted one of the most truculent of the cow-drivers, "the cattle are all pretty well rounded in again; I doubt if more are lost than the wolves would have pulled down anyhow."
Suddenly, however, her grandfather's hearing improved, and they were able to elicit from him the reports which he had had at second hand from the cow-drivers themselves, in retailing which he honestly conceived that he was repeating genuine news, never dreaming that the information had blossomed forth from his own mission.
"In Beauce, on the Orleans and Chartres side, some brigands and prowlers, with hostile intent, dressed as pig-dealers or cow-drivers, came to the little castle of Murs, close to Corbeil, and finding outside the gate the master of the place, who was a knight, asked him to get them back their pigs, which his menials, they said, had the night before taken from them, which was false.
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