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I've never seen one galivantin' around these parts." "They're a lot eastern," assented Lawler. "I've never seen one, but I've read about them in books. And once my mother saw one she tells me the East raises them by the hundred." "That accounts for it," declared Blackburn; "anything which comes from the East is likely to be a heap shy on hoss sense."
I reckon the blacksmith'll be kickin' because I've been galivantin' around the country for one letter. Here it is." He passed an envelope to Hollis, and the latter, with a quick glance at the legend in the upper left hand corner, tore it open and read. It was from Weary.
"In some ways, though, I'm sorta glad the damned mine was blew up. 'Firebrand' would have sure got a-hold of her some day, an' then we'd be clawin' at the bowels of the earth instid of galivantin' around on our cayuses like gentlemen. I reckon things is all for the best."
"I can't make nought of it," he muttered, scratching his head, "It do seem uncommon queer, to be sure. The boss he says, 'She's very low, says he, and then next minute he says, 'She may be comin' down and tryin' to escape. 'I've seen diers o' all shapes and sizes, but I've never seed one as went a galivantin' about like this at least, not among them as died a nat'ral death.
Of course both will be outlaws when there's no rope or no law around, but Why, ma'am," he laughed "I'm gettin' right clever at workin' my jaw, ain't I? Are you headin' back to the Flyin' W? Because if you are, I'd be sort of glad to go along with you if you'll promise you won't go to galivantin' around the country on foot no more.
"Luk at me in me ould age, dhressed out like a Frinch sportin' maid. If there was a baby in the house ye'd see me, Father Phil, galivantin' behind a baby-carriage up an' down the Square. Faith, she does it well, the climbin', if we don't get dizzy whin we're halfway up, an' come to earth afore all the neighbors, flatter nor pancakes."
I tol' 'er the last time I wus thar the ol' huzzy wouldn't so much as notice me, an' that I'd had 'nough trouble lookin' atter my own pore kin without galivantin' about atter my kin by a' unfortunate marriage, but nothin' would do 'er but fer me to go, so I did, an' found the old woman had run clean off. Well, when I told Clariss' that, she mighty nigh had a fit.
I recalls how I'm galivantin' 'round in the Panhandle country it's years ago when I'm young an' recent an' as I'm ridin' along south of the Canadian one day, I discerns a pony an' a gent an' a fire', an' what looks like a yearlin' calf tied down. I knows the pony for Lem Woodruff's cayouse, an' heads over to say "Howdy" to Lem.
Sheila nodded. "Well, it's been right wet to-night, an' it ain't no night to be galivantin' around the country. Where you goin' to?" "To the Double R ranch." "Where's the Double R?" asked the parson. "West," Dakota answered for Sheila; "twenty miles." "Off my trail," said the parson. "I'm travelin' to Lazette." He laughed, shortly.
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