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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Well, there's nothin' doin'. I ain't no killer or no hoss-thief lookin' for a job. I got in bad up north but I ain't lookin' for no more trouble. If Malvey and me lock horns that's my business. But you got me wrong if you reckon I'm goin' to throw in with your outfit. I kin pay for what I eat a couple of times, anyhow. But I ain't hirin' out to no man."
"No! Why, I just meandered through the wood, careless-like, till he comes out, and I just rode up to him, and I said" But Salomy Jane had heard her father's story before. Even one's dearest relatives are apt to become tiresome in narration. "I know, dad," she interrupted; "but this yer man, this hoss-thief, did he get clean away without gettin' hurt at all?"
"Hypocrite son-of-a-hoss-thief went an' run mine off. Might 'a' knowed nobody but a thief could wear such a kerchief!" "I'm with you!" shouted Dave, leading the way on the run towards the corral in the rear of his store. "No, you ain't with me, neither!" replied Hopalong, deftly saddling. "This ain't no plain hoss-thief case it's a private grudge.
"We're going to tie you to that there limb so yore feet'll swing above the grass, that's what we're going to do." Bill and Jed had their hands full for a moment and as they finally mastered the puncher, Charley came up with a rope. "Hurry up no use dragging it out this way. I want to get back to the ranch some time before next week." "Why I ain't no hoss-thief, you liar!" Hopalong yelled.
Take him and you're safe; he can't be outrun this side of the state line." "I ain't no hoss-thief," said Madison grimly. "Nobody sez ye are, but you'd be wuss a fool ef you didn't take him. I'm testimony that you found him among your hosses; I'll tell Judge Boompointer you've got him, and ye kin send him back when you're safe. The judge will be mighty glad to get him back, and call it quits.
Others have tried it an' failed, an' yo're no sleight-of-hand gun-man. This is the first time I ever paid a hoss-thief in silver, or bought stolen goods, but everything has to have a beginning. You get nervous with that hand of yourn an' I'll cure you of it! Git off that piebald, an' quick!" The marshal felt stunned and groped for a way out, but the gun under his nose was as steady as a rock.
He spoke of raids on the horse-herds of white men, and through some queer perversity inspired in his drink, openly asserted that he was the "slickest hoss-thief in Arizona," turning to Pete as he spoke. "I'll take your word for it," said Pete.
"An' the lass Helen is goin' to help us," said Wetzel, much interested. "It's a good move. Women are keen. Betty put Miller's schemin' in my eye long 'afore I noticed it. But girls have chances we men'd never get." "Yes, an' she's like Betts, quicker'n lightnin'. She'll find out this hoss-thief in Fort Henry; but Lew, when we do get him we won't be much better off. Where do them hosses go?
I'm a hoss-thief if, exackly as the queen is comin' my way, that locoed Tucson marshal don't take a slam at a gent with his six-shooter an' miss; an' the bullet, which is dodgin' an' meanderin' down the room, crosses the layout between the dealer an' me, an' takes the top chip off my bet. An' with it goes the copper.
They tries to prove this Caribou Sam is a hoss-thief, but couldn't fill on the draw, an' so Caribou works free of 'em an' is what they calls "'quitted." "'As soon as ever the marshal takes the hobbles off this Caribou Sam he's been held a captif off some'ers an' is packed into Lido onder gyard to be tried a lot this yore malefactor comes bulgin' into the Sunflower an' declar's for fire-water.
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