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Wherefore, to keep up his spirits he chanted the endless metrical version of the adventures of Sam Bass, who "... started out to Texas a cowboy for to be, And a kinder-hearted fellow you scarcely ever'd see." Steve had not quit his job. It had quit him. A few years earlier the Lone Star Cattle Company had reigned supreme in Dry Sandy Valley and the territory tributary thereto.
Don't let the girls see it." The postman, himself a favourite, was pleased to make fun of the girls' affection for Paul. It was a volume of verse with a brief note: "You will allow me to send you this, and so spare me my isolation. I also sympathise and wish you well. C.D." Paul flushed hot. "Good Lord! Mrs. Dawes. She can't afford it. Good Lord, who ever'd have thought it!"
"I'll go to the bank this morning, and get my money," said he. "How are you going to invest it, Dick?" asked Fosdick. "I don't know," said Dick. "I'll put it in the savings bank till I decide. That'll make more'n eleven hundred dollars. I didn't use to think I ever'd be worth that, when I slept in boxes and old wagons."
Any man is apt to want to favor the woman in a case like that. Come to get down to cases, I found I liked Bonnie Bell a lot more than I ever'd realized I did. I was part her dad, you know, and I couldn't stand to see her unhappy. The trouble with a cowpuncher, like I said, is that he hasn't got no real brains.
Then she continued: "I hadn't more'n heard 'Mandy's story afore I was over there; but jest as I put my foot on the door-sill, Josh he come for'ard to meet me. "'What's wanted? says he. An' I declare for't I was so scairt I jest turned round an' cut for home. An' there set 'Mandy, wringin' her hands. "'What be I goin' to do? says she, over 'n' over. 'Who ever'd ha' thought o' this?
"At first I didn't mind it much," he went on, "there bein' lashins to eat aboard, an' more to drink than me an' Jack ever'd hoped to get a show at in all our lives. But pretty soon Jack he begun to be worryin'. He'd get drunk, an' then he'd set an' stare at me like a damn owl jest a-blinkin' and a-blinkin' his damn eyes.
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