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You see it happens like this: We got as far as that dry arroyo just before the trail drops down into the valley, when up jumps a bunch of this here Villa's guys and commenced takin' pot shots at us. "Seein' as how I was sent to guard Bridge an' Mig, I makes them dismount and hunt cover, and then me an' my men wades in and cleans up the bunch.
"Well, you ought to love your aunt Mig, all of you," said aunt Louise, laughing, "for I do believe she thinks you children are as lovely as little white rose-buds. Come, are you all ready? Then run along, and I'll follow after." "O, I'm so glad I'm alive!" cried little Prudy, hoping on one foot; "I do hope I shall never die!"
Well, Mig's horse goes down in a drifted wash. You're trying to point the herd then, and the storm's so thick you don't miss him at first, we'll say. "Anyway, as I've doped it out, Mig loses his life. You find him dead whether then or later I don't know yet. The punch is this: You have been getting pretty sick of the life, and wishing you had behaved yourself and stayed with your dad.
"I'd do a good deal for the outfit, myself; but letting that man get off Say, you fellows up this way don't think killing a man amounts to much, do you?" He looked from one to the other with a queer, contemptuous hostility in his eyes. Andy Green took a forward step and laid a hand familiarly on his rigid shoulder. "Quit it, Mig. We would do a lot for the outfit; that's the God's truth.
Why, I'm a farmer, and I'm married, and I'm in a deuce of a stew because my spuds is drying up on me and no way to get water on 'em without I carry it to 'em in a jug," disclaimed Andy Green hastily. "All I know about punchers I learned from seeing picture shows when I go to town. Now, Mig, here ". "Oh, don't go and reveal all of my guilty past," protested the Native Son.
Then said the companion: 'Min Herre, endog ieg med ingen tunge talede, ligesom baern, oc uskellige creatuure: Mine klaedebon oc mit legoms magerhed uduiser alligeuel klarlig huad ting mig best behof gioris, som er sandelig mad oc dricke: Huorfor forbarme dig ofuer mig, oc befal at giue mig noguet, af huilcket ieg kand slyre min giaeendis mage, ligeruiis som mand Cerbero en suppe forsetter: Saa skalt du lefue laenge oc lycksalig. I think really, said Eusthenes, that the Goths spoke thus of old, and that, if it pleased God, we would all of us speak so with our tails.
"Aw, is that there the cheerfullest thing you can think of to say?" Happy Jack was sweating, with something more than desert heat. "Why, no. The cheerfullest thing I can think of right now is that Mig, here, don't ride with his eyes shut."
Maybe he help us there after a while. If you stay I let him go. Otherwise I shoot you both with Miguel." "Wot you got it in for Mig fer?" asked Billy. "He's a harmless sort o' guy." "He Villista. Villista with gringos run Mexico gringos and the church. Just like Huerta would have done it if they'd given him a chance, only Huerta more for church than for gringos."
"Wait an' see." Well, the Toyman had to go to town "tomorrow," which was much sooner than he had expected earlier in the week. And when he came back his pockets chinked right merrily. They were as full of marbles as on his first trip back from town. They were very beautiful, too, but somehow Marmaduke loved the first blue croaker and the bright agate and the little gray mig best of all.
But you've been afraid of Mig. You couldn't see any chance of taking the back trail as long as he was alive to tell on you. Now he's dead. I guess maybe you better find him right there in the blizzard hurt maybe anyway, just about all in. You try to save him, sabe? You can't, though." "I still don't see no phantom herd," observed Andy, wriggling his toes luxuriously in the warmth of the fire.
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