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But if that Sue Latrop should see me and say that I was not nice, he'd begin to see, too, that it is a fact. "Riding with the boys here on the ranch, and officiating at the branding-pen, riding herd, cutting out beeves and playing the cowboy generally, has not added to my 'culchaw, that is sure. I don't know that I'd be able to 'act up' in decent society again.
"Can't be anything much worse, Daddy," she whispered, "if you are all 'fed up, as the boys say, on 'culchaw'!" He chuckled at that, and began to eye Sue Latrop with more interest. When the shuffle-footed Ming called them to luncheon, he kept close to the girl from Boston, and sat with her and Mrs. Bill Edwards at one of the small tables.
The neighboring rancher's wife had originally come from the East herself; but she had lived long enough in the Panhandle to have quite rubbed off the veneer of that "culchaw" of which Sue was an exponent. "The Bar-T is the show place of the Panhandle," she said, promptly. "We are rather proud of it all of us ranchers." "Indeed? I had no idea!" cooed the girl from Boston.
The Civilian who'd be delightful if he had the military man's knowledge of the world and style, and the military man who'd be adorable if he had the Civilian's culture. 'Detestable word! Have Civilians culchaw? I never studied the breed deeply. 'Don't make fun of Jack's Service. Yes. They're like the teapoys in the Lakka Bazar good material but not polished.
I imagine that she had never looked with approval on her sister's leaning towards persons who cultivated the arts. She spoke of "culchaw" derisively. Mrs. Strickland continued: "After all, if he had any talent I should be the first to encourage it. I wouldn't have minded sacrifices. I'd much rather be married to a painter than to a stockbroker.
She was trying to remember any girl of that name with whom she had gone to school at the Amarillo High. "Sue Latrop's a distant cousin of Mrs. Bill Edwards, and she's from Boston. She's Eastern to the tips of her fingers and talk about 'culchaw'! She has it to burn," chuckled Pratt. "Bill Edwards says she is just 'putting on dog' to show us natives how awfully crude we are.
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