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Updated: June 24, 2025
"But I don't care if I owned ten thousand acres, any man hikin' with his blankets might be just as good a man as me, an' maybe better, for all I'd know. I'd give 'm the benefit of the doubt, anyway." Billy asked for work, at first, indiscriminately, later, only at the larger farms. The unvarying reply was that there was no work. A few said there would be plowing after the first rains.
Then it sure was liftin'. Then it lifted good. D'you know why? Our four naked perspirin' souls was out there underneath her, hikin' her heavens high. Yes, sir. We did it!... And that lamp kept liftin' and liftin'. Then she side-slipped! My God, she side-slipped twice, which was what I'd been afraid of all along!
"That I am," said Sandy; "and next year, too, if the money holds out." "Golly gosh!" said Ricks, incredulously. "Well, I got to be hikin' back. The next is my entry. I'll look you up after while. So-long!" He shambled off, and Sandy watched his broad-checked back until it was lost in the crowd. That Ricks should have turned up at that critical moment seemed a wilful prank on the part of fate.
Then he reloaded and walked rapidly around the tree, still firing. "An' I reckon that's a-makin' some nail-holes fer his galluses!" And reloading again he ran around the tree, firing. "An' mebbe I couldn't still git him if I was hikin' fer the corner of a house an' was in a LEETLE grain of a hurry to git out o' HIS range."
"Oh, yu needn't be hikin' for Albuquerque WasheeWashee'ud charge yu double for washin' yore shirt. Yu ought to fall in di' river some day then he might talk business," called Hopalong over his shoulder as he heaved an old boot into the gallery. "Hey, yu hibernatin' son of morphine, if yu don't git them flapjacks in here pretty sudden-like I'll scatter yu all over di' landscape, sabe?
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