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The next moment Lal Hobhouse was pouring out his story with a redundant selection from his choicest vocabulary of abusive epithet, which was impartially divided between the rustlers and the cowhands under his charge. Nan waited patiently, her eyes studying her father's face.
We argued and insisted, telling him that he knew better how to break a trail than the tenderfeet around here, that his horse was better trained for it. "This country warn't made for no humans just Indians and rattlesnakes and cowhands is all it was intended for." I agreed with him. I was ready to agree with anything he might say if he would only go to the Wagors' shack.
Two men had dismounted by the head gate. Harris cursed himself for not having anticipated this very thing. The whole plan was clear to him. Slade would have known of the implements at the railroad waiting to be freighted in. He would have known, too, that when the cowhands came in from the round-up there would follow the inevitable night at Brill's.
But while the cowhands smoked in the patio, the noise of their laughter and their heavy voices penetrated no louder than the dim humming of bees to the ear of Red Jim Perris, sitting tête-
Christmas had found the range covered with a fresh tracking snow which precluded possibility of a raid and all hands had been summoned to the home ranch for a two-day rest. Harris knew that cowhands, no matter how loyal to the brand that pays them, are a restless lot and must have their periodical fling to break the monotony of lonely days; so he had provided food and drink in abundance.
He did not wish to directly accuse the gun-fighter of anything, for talk is easily traced to its source and the account of Shorty had filled the foreman with immense respect for the fighting qualities of Red Perris. However, he was equally determined to rouse a hostile sentiment towards him among the cowhands.
The settlers came that day with their widow's mite of food and clothes; the women's clothing too large, the children's too small. But it covered us after a fashion. The store at Presho sent out a box of supplies. Coyote Cal and Sourdough rode up. "Beats tarnation, now don't it," Coyote Cal consoled us. "I told you this country wasn't fit for nothin' but cowhands," growled Sourdough.
It don't do to pet cowhands." "Too bad you took all that trouble, Dug," the old cattleman began mildly. "The fact is " "Trouble. Say, I'd ride to Tombstone to get a crack at that young smart Aleck. I told him what I'd do to him if I ever got my fists on him." "So you did catch up with him." Dug drew back sulkily within himself. He did not intend to tell all he knew about the Gunsight Pass episode.
I tell 'em they can send for a whole whale if they want to pay for it, but none of my money goes that way so long as stall-fed beef retains its present flavour; and furthermore I expect to be doing business right here for years after the whale fad has died out doing the best I can with about ten silly cowhands taking the rest cure at my expense the minute I step off the place.
On the opposite side of the field stood the row of steep-roofed, palm- thatched huts in which the ordinary cowhands lived with their dusky helpmeets and children.
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