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Don't yuh worry none about Andy Green; why, man, do yuh reckon any horse-critter could break his leg a rider like him? He knows more ways uh falling off a horse without losing the ashes off his cigarette than most men know how to how to punish grub! Andy Green couldn't get hurt with a horse! If he could, he'd uh been dead and playing his little harp long ago."
The elder of the two, a boy about thirteen years old, went into the shack and returned in a moment bringing out two rifles. I turned the broncho's head up the trail, but Tom interposed. "'I 'low, he said, 'that ye'll hev ter leave yer horse-critter right hyar; thar ain't much of er trail up the mount'n.
The folks in the Cove dun'no' nuthin'. But oh, ye mustn't s'picion nobody else ye mustn't hang nobody else!" Once more that indescribable change upon his face. "You showed him the way to this pass yourself? Tell the truth!" "He war ridin' his horse-critter 'tain't ez fast, nor fine, nor fat ez yourn." He stroked the glossy mane with a sort of mechanical pride.
"An' I hev loant money ter Jim, whenst I hed need myself; an' holped George in the mill, when his wrist war sprained, without a cent o' pay; an' took the blame when 'Dolphus war faulted by his dad fur lamin' the horse-critter; an' stood back an' let Pete git the meat whenst we-uns shot fur beef, bein' he hev got a wife an' chil'ren ter feed. All leetle favors, but nare leetle word."
Briscoe's mare skeered an' shied an' backed off'n the bluff that air whut the country-side will think. Whenst his body is fund his head will be mashed ter a jelly by the fall, an' nobody kin say he kem otherwise by his death jes' an accident in drivin' a skittish horse-critter." Whether it was a sound, whether it was a movement, none of the group was accurately aware.
An' how she looked the fust day she stood in the door o' my cabin up thar kem ter nuss Elmiry through that spell she hed o' the scarlet fever. An' arterward she says ter me: 'Ye do manage s'prisin', Justus; an' I be goin' ter save ye some gyardin seed out'n my patch this year, an' ef ye'll plough my patch I'll loan ye my horse-critter ter plough your'n.
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