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"I hate them. If a man has to be killed " "You never " broke in Molly. She had started back a little. "Well," she added hastily, "don't tell me if " "I shouldn't wonder if I got one of those Indians," he said quietly. "But I wasn't waitin' to see! But I came mighty near doing for a white man that day. He had been hurtin' a hawss." "Hurting?" said Molly. "Injurin. I will not tell yu' about that.
"You could if you realized how kind and good he has been to me all these years. Do you know, when I first came West, I couldn't tell a jackrabbit from a burro. Daddy had told me that each had big ears, and I got them mixed. And actually I didn't know the off from the nigh side of a hawss!" "But we er have horses and riding-schools in the East," put in Ashton.
"Enough to make the tenderfoot pull leather," said Gowan. "If he stuck at all, with that fool saddle !" rejoined Knowles. "Don't you worry, honey. He sure can fork a hawss that tenderfoot." "Oh, yes," the girl sighed with relief. "If Rocket started off bucking, and he kept his seat, of course it's all right. See him take that gully!" "You sure gave me a start, honey, calling out that way.
The tumult of talk and laughter grew till the chef put his head out of the kitchen door, and then came sauntering across the grass to the helps' piazza. At the same time the clerk suffered himself to be lured from his post by the excitement. He came and stood beside the chef, who listened to the shoeman's flow of banter with a longing to take his chances with him. "That's a nice hawss," he said.
"This lady yere she " "Scooped y'u right off yore hawss. Y'u don't say," sympathized Mac so breathlessly that even Reddy joined in the chorus of laughter that went up at his expense. The young woman thought to make it easy for him, and suggested an explanation. "His horse isn't used to automobiles, and so when it met this one "
Now, you're some healthy. Don't that prove the outside of a hawss is good for the inside of a man, like the docs say?" grinned Purdy. "Tom's notion of real living is sassiety with a capital S," explained Cuffs. "You watch him cut ice at the Frying Pan dance next week. He'll be the real-thing lady-killer. All you lads going, I reckon. How about you, Jim?" Yeager said he expected to be there.
"'What you goin' to bet on? I says. "'Ma own hawss, of co'se, suh, he says. 'It is ma custom to back only ma own hawsses or those of ma friends. "I don't say nothin'. I'm wise by this time, he plays the game to suit hisself, but it sure makes me sick. I hate as bad to see the ole man lose his dough as if it's mine. "I goes over 'n' sets down on the track fence.
Now, mebbe this yere Faro is a race hawss, an' mebbe he ain't, but if yo' eveh puts him in with early speed an' a short distance to go, betteh play him with a copper, kunnel. He got same chance as a eagle flyin' a mile 'gainst pigeons." "The thing to do," said Old Man Curry with his kindly smile, "is to find out the eagle's distance."
Notice how he gives to its pitching," said Bannister, as he watched his cousin's perfect ease in the cyclone of which he was the center. "I expect it depends on the kind of a 'hawss," she mocked. "He's riding well, isn't he?" "I don't know any that ride better." The horse put up a superb fight, trying everything it knew to unseat this demon clamped to its back.
"You think he's a pretty good horse, do you, Japhe worth the money?" he queried, with the air of one who is about to surrender, not to the fact, but to the presentation of it. "If you cayn't stable him this winter and then get your money back on him in ary hawss market this side o' the Ohio River, I'll eat hawss for the rest o' my bawn days. Now that's fair, ain't it?"
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