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Why, he had 'em so badly rattled that they all just about camped out on the pavement the rest of that night." "Sure, I remember that," declared Andy Flinn, laughing. "Three nights did he play the same joke, and then they got on to him. Wan officer do be sneakin' up to the loft, while the rist pretended to be huntin' around downstairs.
He had never been allowed to use a gun, but Rad had one, and Yan's vivid account of his adventure had the desired effect. His method was characteristic. "Rad, would you go huntin' if there was lots to hunt?" "Course I would." "Well, I know a place not ten miles away where there are all kinds of wild animals hundreds of them." "Yes, you do, I don't think. Humph!"
"How do you know?" Rick demanded. "They'd walk, then stop, and bend over. Like they were searchin' the ground. Bet one of 'em lost a head and is huntin' for it." "Did you see where they came from, or went to?" "Not me. I got curiosity, but not the kind that killed that cat they tell about. Like I say, me and spirits don't mix, none to speak of." Rick pondered the information.
The rear cloud suddenly scattered into many smaller ones and all swept off to the east. The rescuing band overtook them and, several hours later, when seated around a table in Tom Lee's saloon, Muddy Wells, a count was taken of them, which was pleasing in its facts. "We was huntin' coyotes when we saw yu," said a smiling puncher who was known as Salvation Carroll chiefly because he wasn't. "Yep!
"Well, you may be right after all," returned the Moor slowly. "I will go and see this father. At all events it can do no harm." "None whateber, massa. An' I better run back and send Ali arter you." "Why? What has he to do with it?" "Oh! I only t'ought dat you was huntin' togidder. It's ob no consikence.
Jist fiddled around, huntin', fishin' en loafin'. The whole thing wasn't any bigger an asset than a job as a section hand on the U P. Their sales of scrawny cattle jist about paid the taxes en bought their salt en terbacker. "Now, son, ye are on the Bar-O. The line runs from them peaks in the Cliffs to a bend in the crick at that fringe of trees.
"I'm hopin' they don't," says I. But as soon as the carriages begun comin' and I gets busy callin' for the seat checks, I forgets how I looks and stops huntin' for some place to stow my hands. It was a cinch job. There was only a few lady butt-ins that had strayed over from the shoppin' district and smelled out a free show.
She, too, had gone out on an errent the evening before. She and Aronette had been seen to leave the hotel together in the early evening. Elder Wessel, half distracted, searched for them with all his strength of mind and purse. I started Josiah off a huntin' the minute he had got through eatin'. He refused pint blank to go before. "Eat," sez I, "who can eat in such a time as this?"
"Staying in bed on a huntin' mornin' is not exactly my form, even when the quarry is merely a harmless Trappist!" "Your early habits do you credit, but your language, St. Nivel," I said reprovingly, "is verging on the profane." "I'm sure I'm very sorry," he answered. "I'd walk ten miles rather than offend any one's feelings. I hope Don Juan didn't hear me."
My father was an Englishman, my mother was a Scotchman, I was born in Ireland, an' raised in Canady, an' I've lived in Number Nine for more nor twelve year, huntin', trappin' an' keepin' a hotel. I hain't never ben eddicated, but I can tell the truth when it's necessary, an' I love my friends an' hate my enemies." "May it please the Court," said Mr.
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