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Calhoun turned pale, then controlling himself by a powerful effort, he replied: “Do the Home Guards of Kentucky violate every principle of honorable warfare?” “Damn honorable warfare! Yo-uns called me a chicken-thief; I call you a hoss-thief. Hoss-thieves air hanged. Ha! ha! the son of Judge Pennington strung up fo’ stealin’ hosses!
"An' if there's any trouble about it we can hang two as well as we can one," suggested Stevenson, placidly. "You sit tight an' mind yore own affairs, stranger," he warned. Hopalong turned his head slowly. "He's a liar, stranger; just a plain, squaw's dog of a liar. An' I'll be much obliged if you'll lick hell outen 'em an' let why, hullo, hoss-thief!" he shouted, at once recognizing the other.
"Mebby it's four days after when this yere Sal hops outen the stage, an' for the next week thar ain't no washin' done whatever, while Benson Annie an' Sal works the wire aige offen their visit. "`A gent as would begretch two pore, hard-workin' girls a lay-off of a week, says Enright, 'ain't clean strain, an' I don't want to know sech a hoss-thief nohow'; an' we-alls feels likewise.
That outfit in the valley holds that Adam was all right when he started, but later he struck something an' glanced off; them up on the hill contends that Adam was a hoss-thief from the jump. An' thar you be! You couldn't reeconcile 'em between now an'the crack of doom. Doctrines to a Baptis' that a-way is the entire check-rack."
"You shall put it down, Hank Stiger. You are nothing but a horse-thief, and I " "Ha! call me a hoss-thief!" ejaculated the half-breed, in a rage. "I won't stand that, boy. You shall suffer for it." "You are a horse-thief, and stole one of my father's animals last year. Now you want to steal my deer, but you shall not do it. Dan, he's got to give it up, hasn't he?"
It's a time when a passel of us gets overcome by waves of sentiment that a-way, an' not only turns a hoss-thief loose entire, after the felon's done been run down, but Boggs waxes that sloppy he lavishes a hoss an' saddle onto him; likewise sympathy, an' wishes him luck.
He saw Gary's hand move almost imperceptibly toward his holster. "I reckon I made a mistake," said Pete slowly and he let the rope slip from his hand as though utterly unnerved. "I I talked kind o' quick," he stammered. "Well, you won't make no more mistakes," sneered Gary, and he dropped his hand to his gun. "You want to know who plugged that old hoss-thief, Annersley, eh?
"Reckon I'll do what?" queried Pete. "Let The Spider or anybody like him run a whizzer on me after I run a good hoss ragged to git here with his doggone letter and then git stuck up like I was a hoss-thief? You got another guess, uncle." The old cowman's eyes twinkled. "You speak right out in meetin', don't you, son?" His drawl was easy and somehow reminded Pete of Pop Annersley.
"I thought of it but I didn't have the heart," said Polly. "After all, he'd been kind to me, and he is a gentleman." "Gentleman! My God!" Scott's profanity was innocent with true horror. "First time I ever heard a hoss-thief called a gentleman," chuckled Matt. "Well," Polly looked a bit crestfallen. "I mean, he's educated and he comes of good family." "I don't go much on family," said Mrs.
Somebody lit a match and laid them dice there sixes up. No reg'lar hoss-thief would take that much trouble to advertise himself. Panhandle done it and he wanted me to know he done it." "You've had trouble with him before, haven't you?" "Yes and no man can say I ever trailed him. But I never stepped out of his way."
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