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Updated: June 25, 2025
After looking upon the ford again, even though it was dry and not at all the same place, he journeyed in attentively. When you have been hard at work for months with no time to think, of course you think a great deal during your first empty days. "Step along, you Monte hawss!" he said, rousing after some while. He disciplined Monte, who flattened his ears affectedly and snorted.
"Didn't y'u hear him order his hawss, ma'am? He's keen on this ride. Of course he don't have to go unless he wants to." The man turned his villainous smile on his cousin, and the latter interpreted it to mean that if he preferred, the point of attack might be shifted to the girl. He might go or he might stay. But if he stayed the mistress of the Lazy D would have to pay for his decision.
It would be absurd, cheating yourself that way. Anyhow, Rocket is your horse to ride, as long as you wish to." "But I would like him for my own. How about trading him for my pony and the wages due me?" "Well, that wouldn't be an unfair bargain. Your hawss is the best cow pony of the two." "It is very kind of you to agree, Miss Chuckie! Here is all the money; and here is the watch.
"Slim says he can swear to his hawss, and he's plumb sure about the man, too. He wants we should organize a posse and nail them as they go into the Pass for Bear Creek. He figures we'll have time to do it if we jump. Noches is fifty-five miles from here, and about forty from the Pass. "With their bronchs loaded they can't make it in much less than five hours.
The end of it was that he took my team and left me with his worn-out bronc. I plugged on all day with the hawss till about three mebbe, then seeing it was all in I unsaddled and picketed. I lay down and dropped asleep. Next I knew the necktie-party was in session." "What time was it y'u met this fellow Kinney?" asked Long sharply. "Must have been about nine or nine-thirty I judge."
"Some one has been here since the rain," I called to the Virginian, who was still on the rock, walking up behind the packhorses. "Since the rain!" he exclaimed. "That's not two days yet." He came and examined the footprints. "A man and a hawss," he said, frowning. "Going the same way we are. How did he come to pass us, and us not see him?" "One of the other trails," I reminded him.
"You Monte hawss," said he, "you think you are wise, but there's a lot of things you don't savvy." Then he made a new beginning of talk between us. "It is kind of pitiful about Shorty." "Very pitiful," I said. "Do you know about him?" the Virginian asked. "I know there's no real harm in him, and some real good, and that he has not got the brains necessary to be a horse thief." "That's so.
"And this Cunnel Cunnel " "Colonel Doolittle?" "Uh-huh. Will he help me, do you s'pose, to get my Little Hawss cured of his lameness?" "You may count on that." "Who else is comin' here to see you?" she inquired, as they left Little Hawss wistfully agaze at them across the old log fence. Layson, for no reason he could think of, felt a bit uncomfortable, as he replied.
'Em white bu'glahs don't seem to crave me nohow, no time; 'ey jus' be tickled to death to put me an' 'Lisha oveh 'e fence if we git clost 'nough to it. Yes, indeed; I 'low to give 'is hawss all 'e room whut is on a race track!" Old Man Curry led Elisha toward his barn, the little negro trailing behind, addressing the horse in terms of endearment.
His inquiries at such stables as he found brought no satisfaction. Neither Miller nor the pinto had been seen at any of them. Later in the evening he met Henry B. West at the St. James Hotel. "How's that business of yore's gettin' along, boy?" asked the cattleman with a smile. "Don' know yet. Say, Mr. West, if I find a hawss that's been stole from me, how can I get it back?"
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