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Updated: June 13, 2025
There was somethin' in the sound o' the horse's hoofs that told me he was carryin' bad news, and I jumped up, and says I, 'Abram, some awful thing has happened. And he says, 'Jane, are you crazy? I could hear the sound o' the gallopin' comin' nearer and nearer, and I rushed out to the front gate with Abram follerin' after me.
"'Is there no remedy for this? said he; and he looked as wild as a Cherokee Indian. Thinks I, the handle is fitted on proper tight now. 'Well, says I, 'when a man has a cold, he had ought to look out pretty sharp, afore it gets seated on his lungs; if he don't, he gets into a gallopin' consumption, and it's gone goose with him.
A stampede will often involve a week's weary scouring of the prairie. Just as Jim Bowley was about to ride up to the camp, Nat fired a question which he had been some time meditating. "Guess you didn't hear a horse gallopin' jest now, pard?" he asked quietly. "Why cert, boy," the other answered quickly, "only a deaf mule could 'a' missed it.
'He stood starin' for a minute; then he started shoutin', "Hi! hi there!" after us, but we took no notice, an' rode on. When we looked back last he was runnin' into the scrub with a bridle in his hand. 'We jogged along easily till we got within a mile of Mulgatown, when we heard somebody gallopin' after us, an' lookin' back we saw it was Poisonous.
"That's unfort'nit," said Quentin. "Thae twa look like an advance-gaird, an' if so, the main body'll no be lang o' gallopin' up to see what's the maitter. It behoves us to rin!" The only port of refuge that appeared to them as they looked quickly round was a clump of trees on a ridge out of which rose the spire of a church.
"Gallopin' consumption!" Joe sniffed. "It doesn't smell like consumption," he said with a sigh. "It smells like rum!" He hustled her out rather roughly, Nathan Slate regarding him with mournful round eyes. Twenty minutes later Nathan came over and sat down. "Mr. Joe." "Yes, Nathan." "There's something troubles my conscience, Mr. Joe." "Let her rip!" "Mr. Joe " "I'm waiting!"
She then bestowed upon him a look full of an impatient agony, which no language could describe; her eyes had already become wild and piercing her cheek flushed and her frame animated with a spirit that seemed to partake at once of terror, intense hatred, and something like frenzy. "They are gallopin'! they are gallopin'!" she said, "and they will find life in him!"
"Them's them awful kind o' rebels, ain't they the John Morgan kind that ride big horses that snort fire, and they have long swords, with which they chop men's heads off?" "A lot o' yellin', gallopin' riff-raff," said Shorty, with the usual contempt of an infantryman for cavalry. "Ain't worth the fodder their bosses eat." "Ain't they terribler than any other kind o' rebels?" asked Pete, anxiously.
That night, while we were eatin' our supper, a party of horsemen came gallopin' an' yellin' down the bank of the river, an', ridin' up to the door of the cabin, dismounted, an', leavin' their horses to take care of themselves, came in without ceremony. We knowed very well who they were.
And sez he: "The first thing I do when I go home will be to send the colt to the deestrick school." I told him the teacher wouldn't want him whinnerin' round amongst her scholars, and mebby gallopin' and snortin' round the schoolroom. But he wuz as firm as adamant in his idee. And Id'no what I shall do about it. But spoze the trustees will have to head him off.
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