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Well, sir, it started him getting well, which he done. Close to the ground that's where the medicine in the air stays. Try a little hossback riding now. There's a gentle pony " "What've I done to yer?" screamed McGuire. "Did I ever doublecross yer? Did I ask you to bring me here? Drive me out to your camps if you wanter; or stick a knife in me and save trouble. Ride! I can't lift my feet.
"A fellar on hossback," was the answer. "He come up on us like a streak out o' thet black hollor, an' he'd a sure got away of Mason hed n't clubbed him with his gun. I've got the cuss safe collared now." "Who are you?" I asked sternly, striving in vain to see something of him through the darkness. "Where were you riding?" He maintained a sullen silence, and Sands kicked him.
"Well, I reckon you might, by goin' hossback across the old trail, but you 'd need to have a guide in the dark, and you 'd find it a hell of a hard ride." The young engineer stood a moment staring out of the window into the night. The street was well illumined by the numerous saloon lights, and he could perceive scattering flakes of snow in the air, blown about by the gusty wind.
"Dar's a whole comp'ny of sodjers on hossback comin' down de road!" shouted Cuffy, as soon as he could collect breath enough to speak. "What are they, Cuffy?" demanded Warren. "Sodjers! Mars'r Warren." "Of course they are soldiers; but on which side do they belong?" "Dressed in blue, Mars'r Warren. Mus' be Union." "The force must be one, or both, of your companies, Lieutenant," added Warren.
In the soft soil he made out a number of hoof-prints, and he called Todd's attention to these. "On hossback, both of 'em," said the cowboy, after an examination. "Dave, you was right," he announced, a little later. "It must have been Merwell and Snogger, fer see, they have taken the old trail along the river. That leads to another trail that runs to the Merwell ranch."
"She does favor him to some extent in that respect," was the reply; "an' she's dark complected like him, but she's a mighty han'some girl, notwithstandin'. Both on 'em is han'some girls," observed Mr. Harum, "an' great fer hosses, an' that's the way I got 'quainted with 'em. They're all fer ridin' hossback when they're up here. Did you ever ride a hoss?" he asked.
Rode my bay oss Desperation in the park. Sir John's carridge there in coarse. Miss Hemly lets fall her booky as I pass, and I'm obleged to get hoff and pick it hup, & get splashed up to the his. The gettin on hossback agin is halways the juice & hall.
"They is a cirkis" said Melons gravely, hanging with his back to the fence and his arms twisted around the palings "a cirkis over yonder!" indicating the locality with his foot "with hosses, and hossback riders. They is a man wot rides six hosses to onct six hosses to onct and nary saddle" and he paused in expectation. Even this equestrian novelty did not affect me.
Mine has hurt his leg so badly that I am 'fraid I sha'n't be able to ride him this summer. 'Wa'al, I says, 'I've got a hoss that's ben rode, so I was told, but I don't know of my own knowin'. "'Don't you ride? she says. 'Hossback? I says. 'Why, of course, she says.
But I reckon all the strenuous work you've seen to-day ain't any tougher than most any day of a cowboy's life. Long hours on hossback, poor grub, sleepin' on the ground, lonesome watches, dust an' sun an' wind an' thirst, day in an' day out all the year round thet's what a cowboy has. "Look at Nels there. See, what little hair he has is snow-white. He's red an' thin an' hard burned up.
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