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But as Nort and Dick rejoined Bud, having leaped to their saddles they, as well as the others from Diamond X caught sight of something which, for the moment made them sick at heart. For the sight was that of another body of horsemen riding into the old volcano bowl. On they cantered, the sun glinting on their arms. "More of Del Pinzo's rustlers!" burst out Bud. "We may as well give up!
He had his gun in his hand, for he had so held it since he had shattered the first bottle, and now it was grasped in readiness for instant action. "We're with you!" cried Nort and Dick, as they emerged from their recumbent positions in the grass, and hastened to the side of their cousin.
"You said it!" commented Nort. "Well, there's one thing we don't have to worry about, and that is not finding any water running into the reservoir," added Dick, as he slipped in through the gate and caught one of his ponies not Blackie, who was tired out from the round-up. Each cow puncher, including the boy ranchers, had several animals in his "string."
I think, if the truth were known, that the first shooting on both sides was so wild that no one thought to take accurate aim, which is difficult on the back of a rushing cow pony, and with a heavy .45 gun. It was, essentially, a running fight and Bud, Dick and Nort were urging their ponies forward as rapidly as possible to get their share of it.
And, wheeling his horse, he abandoned the trail of the rustlers, and galloped toward the fire, followed by Nort and Dick. Some time before the boy ranchers reached the scene of the grass fire toward which they were riding, they caught the smell of the burning fodder.
"Well, we didn't stop t' hunt for it, as long as it wasn't a plain one," Snake answered. "Likely we could 'a' picked it up. But as long as there had been a raid we decided th' best thing t' do was t' save th' rest of th' cattle, an' then come an' tell you, Bud." "How many cattle do you think they took?" asked Nort.
Don Francisco Tello, knight of the Order of Santiago, governor and captain-general in these Filipinas Islands, and president of the Audiencia and royal Chancilleria resident therein, etc.: I certify to whomever may see this present, that last year, one thousand six hundred, a squadron of Dutch war-vessels under command of Oliber del Nort, after passing through the strait of Magallanes to the South Sea, reached these islands, in the month of October of the said year, with two armed ships.
"I always am lucky in finding things," I exclaimed, while he watched me, and the up stream too, whence a babble of water was approaching. "As sure as I live I have found it!" "No doubt about your living, miss. And the Captain were always lively. But what have your bright eyes hit upon? I see nort for the life of me." "Look there," I cried, "at the very bottom of it almost under the water.
It must be admitted that the stories on which Nort and Dick had fed their imaginations were true enough about the time they were written. But the romantic Indians died off, or were confined on reservations, and those who occasionally sneaked over the border from Mexico, to make raids by which they gathered in cattle, ponies and weapons, were not of this class.
"It's like making an attack on a bunch of Greasers!" declared Nort, in some disgust, as the fight opened. But just then a bullet sang uncomfortably close to his head, and as he ducked down too late of course had the shot been true Bud laughed and said: "Don't lose sight of the fact that they can shoot!" Indeed the Yaquis, thus forced to make a stand and fight, were not going to give up easily.
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