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She could hear the stuff rattlin' continually from his steps, and when she turned her haid to look, she seen it goin' down close beside her, but into what it went she could not see. Only, there was a queer steam would come up now and agayn, and her hawss trembled. So she tried to get off and walk without sayin' nothin' to Hank.
"Some one steal a hawss from you?" Dave told his story. West listened to a finish. "I know a lawyer here. We'll ask him what to do," the ranchman said. They found the lawyer at the Athletic Club. West stated the case. "Your remedy is to replevin. If they fight, you'll have to bring witnesses to prove ownership." "Bring witnesses from Malapi! Why, I can't do that," said Dave, staggered.
"Jumping Jehosaphat!" ejaculated Gowan. "That shore is mighty hard luck! I reckon pulling that spike turns your line of levels adrift like knocking out the picket-pin of an uneasy hawss." Blake burst into a hearty laugh. "That's a fine metaphor, Mr. Gowan. But it does not happen to fit the case.
All the docs say the outside of a hawss is good for the inside of a man. Mebbe it'll be the making of him." "I won't have it. I'll rouse the whole countryside against you. Why don't you parole him till he is better?" "All right. We'll leave it that way," announced the man. "I'd hate to hurt your tender feelings after such a pleasant evening.
And he indulged in a true Virginian expletive. "Gentlemen, hush!" he murmured gently, looking at me with his grave eyes; "one time I got pretty near scared. You, Buck," he continued, "some folks would beat you now till yu'd be uncertain whether yu' was a hawss or a railroad accident. I'd do it myself, only it wouldn't cure yu'." I now told him that I supposed he had saved both our lives.
"Well," was the cautious reply, "he ain't done anything yet." The boys jogged on for some time in silence. "You sutny set him nice an' easy," commented Mose. "Le's breeze 'em a little an' see how you handle a hawss." Mose booted his mount in the ribs, chirruped twice, and the horse broke into a gallop.
He was now riding in front of me, and he stopped, looking down at the trail. "Don't you notice?" It did not strike me. "Why, he keeps walking beside his hawss; he don't get on him." Now we, of course, had mounted at the beginning of the better trail after the steep rock, and that was quite half a mile back. Still, I had a natural explanation. "He's leading a packhorse.
Beaudry followed orders in a tuneless voice that hopped gayly up and down. He had invented words and music years ago as a lullaby and the song was in frequent demand. "Li'l' ole hawss an' li'l' ole cow, Amblin' along by the ole haymow, Li'l' ole hawss took a bite an' a chew, 'Durned if I don't, says the ole cow, too."
I'm one of the hair-hung and breeze-shaken majority. I should most probably have punched his head." "Well, that's jest what I did. I says, says I, 'Jim, whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and jest at this time present, I'm the instrument. And when the dust got settled down, Jim he druv' home with that ther' piebald, allowin' he wasn't such an all-fired bad hawss after all.
"Before you do any explainin' mebbe you'd better guess who it is that's goin' to send yore cowardly soul to hell inside of five minutes." "If you're some kin to that gal on the hawss with me, why, I'll tell you the honest-to-God truth. I was aimin' to save her from the 'Paches when I got a chanct. Come on down an' let's we-uns talk it over reasonable."
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