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The ex-foreman fell, part way. The stirrup caught his left foot as his head went into the sand. Stacy's horse reared back, started to run, then stopped and waited patiently for its master who would never rise. There was feasting at the S Bar hacienda. The table was heavily laden with dishes once full of delicious viands but now empty. The men, five in all, had brought out their "makin's."
"Oh, I don't know, Sergeant" responded Redmond deprecatingly, "of course I've been around teams some down East, on the old man's farm. . . I don't know that I can claim to be a real teamster as you judge them in the Force." "H-mm!" grunted Slavin again, "ye seem tu have th' makin's anyway." He expectorated musingly. "Wan time down at Coutts 'twas a young feller was sint tu me for tu dhrive.
If you happens to mention you ain't got your makin's with you, the nearest guy to you'll call the police. They wouldn't have a hoss trained that could run a mile in nothin'. "A dog out on grass don't cost but two bucks a month. It seems like the men I'm workin' fur all remembers this at once. When I'm through followin' shippin' instructions I'm down to one mutt, 'n' I owns him myself.
"Sit down, bo," invited Soup Face. "I guess you're a regular all right. Here, have a snifter?" and he pulled a flask from his side pocket, holding it toward The Oskaloosa Kid. "Thank you, but; er I'm on the wagon, you know," declined the youth. "Have a smoke?" suggested Columbus Blackie. "Here's the makin's." The change in the attitude of the men toward him pleased The Oskaloosa Kid immensely.
"He's sure green," replied the cowboy, shrugging his shoulders in protest, "an' he ain't much more humble-minded than a hen that's jest laid an egg of unusooal size, but I reckon he's got the makin's." "It's a good thing to be green," said the old Ranger thoughtfully, "nothin' grows much after it's dry, Bob-Cat. The heart's got to be green anyway.
"'Fwhat ails the Tyrone? thinks I; 'they've the makin's av a most convanient fight here. "A man behind me sez beseechful an' in a whisper: 'Let me get at thim! For the Love av Mary give me room beside ye, ye tall man!" "'An' who are you that's so anxious to be kilt? sez I, widout turnin' my head, for the long knives was dancin' in front like the sun on Donegal Bay whin ut's rough.
Nothing more was heard from any of them until Joe Shafto finally announced that they had reached the end of their night's journey. "Rustle something for the makin's, and we'll have heat and a hot drink right smart," she called. While Hippy tied the ponies and fetched water for them, Tom gathered firewood and started the fire for breakfast.
"Yep, the great all-the-time, anyhow-'n'-any-place Hamilton," Blister assured me. "'N' speakin' of class in kids 'n' colts, lemme tell you about it." He reached for his "makin's" and I waited while he rolled a cigarette, this process being a necessary prelude to a journey into his past. "The year Seattle Sam goes down 'n' out," the words came in a cloud of cigarette smoke, "I'm at Saratoga.
Several days before Christmas they began to plan a real "feed." We had moved into our new house now, and it was decided to make a home of it by giving a Christmas housewarming. The rangers all helped to prepare the dinner. Each one could choose one dish he wanted cooked and it was cooked, even if we had to send to Montgomery Ward and Company for the makin's.
"Fwhat ails the Tyrone?" thinks I; "they've the makin's av a most convanient fight here." 'A man behind me sez beseechful an' in a whisper: "Let me get at thim! For the Love av Mary give me room beside ye, ye tall man!" "An' who are you that's so anxious to be kilt?" sez I, widout turnin' my head, for the long knives was dancin' in front like the sun on Donegal Bay whin ut's rough.
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