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"I thought yu'd quit them first figures," said the cow-puncher, "for yu' can see I ain't goin' to look at em." Balaam climbed on the fence and sat there "I'm not crying for your Pedro," he observed dispassionately. "Only it struck me you were dead broke, and wanted to raise cash and keep yourself going till you hunted up a job and could buy him back."
"It's what you've done, not what you haven't done that . But surely this is a waste of time? It's not particularly pleasant; and I don't see what will be gained by going into all the the details." Something in her tone stung him. "Still, it doesn't seem quite fair to condemn even a common cow-puncher unheard," he retorted with a touch of sarcasm.
It was finally decided that Walt and Ralph should stand the first watch, and Coyote Pete and Jack the last part of the night. The professor, after carefully drawing tight the curtain of his tent, "to keep the cold out," as he explained, retired. Soon after, Jack and the cow-puncher also went to bed till the watch should summon them to go on duty in their turn.
Old as I am, Miss Majesty, an' used as I am to cowboy excentrikities, I nearly dropped daid when I heered that little hobble-footed, burned-up Montana cow-puncher say there wasn't any game too swell for him, an' gol-lof was just his speed. Serious as a preacher, mind you, he was.
"This is one of those fashionable dinners where they have extra hardware beside the plates," he suggested. "Get gay, and I'll blow the top of yore head off!" the cow-puncher swore with gusto. "Thanks. Under the circumstances, I reckon I'll not get gay. I'm in no hurry to put you in the pen, seh. Plenty of time. I'm going to need the top of my head to testify against you." Irwin swore violently.
His words were chiefly those which the people round him used, and his voice was more like earnest talking than preaching. Miss Sabina Stone felt the arm of her cow-puncher loosen slightly, and she looked at him. But he was looking at the bishop, no longer gravely but with wide-open eyes, alert.
Roughly speaking, the Espinosa Ranch is forty miles long and thirty broad but mostly leased land. Josefa, on her pony, had prospected over every mile of it. Every cow-puncher on the range knew her by sight and was a loyal vassal. Ripley Givens, foreman of one of the Espinosa outfits, saw her one day, and made up his mind to form a royal matrimonial alliance. Presumptuous? No.
It is dark, I will walk with you to Concho." "You think I'm a kid?" flared Pete. "If was dark when I come over here and it ain't any darker now. I ain't no doggone cow-puncher what's got to git on a hoss afore he dast go anywhere." Montoya laughed. "You come to-morrow night, eh?" "Reckon I will." "Then the camp will be over there in the cañon. You will see the fire."
The Governor expressed his agreeable surprise at this change of mind, and was glad of McLean's company and judgment during the impending selections. A picture of a cow-puncher and himself discussing a couple of dolls rose nimbly in Barker's mental eye, and it was with an imperfect honesty that he said, "You'll help me a heap." And Lin, quite sincere, replied, "Thank yu'."
And all she says when I quit was, 'If I saw him I would tell him to find a home." "Didn't she tell yu' she'd made me promise to keep away from seeing her?" asked the cow-puncher. Mrs. Lusk laughed. "Oh, you innocent!" said she. "She said if I came she would leave Separ," muttered McLean, brooding. Again the large woman laughed out, but more harshly. "I have kept my promise," Lin continued.
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