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Then he showed us a picture of Duff, his brother, which Linkern defended for murder, and a picture of one of the jurymen what let Duff off, and a picture of his mother's brother what was the greatest fiddler ever in the county. And he showed us Duff's discharge from the army which Linkern wrote, and a badge which Linkern had given to his mother onct. So then I said to John, "Did you ever see Mr.
Shore Bruce ain't nothin' to give an edge to a real gun fighter. Looks to me like Isbel bluffed Greaves an' his gang an' licked your men without throwin' a gun." "Maybe Isbel doesn't want the name of drawin' first blood," suggested Jorth. "That 'd be like Gass," spoke up Rock Wells, quietly. "I onct rode fer Gass in Texas."
"The lock-up is jammed full of Union men already, but they'll find room for one more. And mind you, after you onct get in you'll not come out till you promise to 'list in the Confederate army. That's the way they are doing now to put patriotism into people who aint got any." "Do you know when the Home Guards intend to come to our house?" "No, I don't.
I nudged Mitch. A part of the way to John's we went along the edge of a place where nothin' growed at all. There wasn't a weed or a tree. John said it was the Mason County desert, and onct he got over in there and got lost, that there wasn't a livin' thing in there, and not a crow ever flew over it.
These here Cholas is gamblin' for our hosses, right now. It kind of looks to me like if we stayed round here much longer we ain't goin' to need any hosses or anything else. I worked for a Mexican onct and I sabe 'em. You got to kind of feel what they mean, and never mind what they are sayin'. Now I got a hunch that we don't get back to the Olla, never 'less we start right now." "But how in "
Onct they was only a lot of poor cowboys, an' then sudden-like they was human bein's, livin' in a big world thet hed somethin' sweet even fer them. Even fer me an ole, worn-out, hobble-legged, burned-up cowman like me! Do you git thet?
The trail herd had been driven in an hour before. "How's old Alkali?" asked Dave of his friend Buck, thumping him on the back. "Jes' tolable," answered the old-timer equably, making great play with knife and fork. "A man or a hawss don't either one amount to much after they onct been stove up. Since that bronc piled me at Willow Creek I been mighty stiff, you might say."
'Course he acted like he was but you can't tell about him. He he helped me out of a hole onct." "Did you ever help him out?" "Me? No, I never had the chanct." "Uh-huh. Well, just you pull in your hoss and run your good eye over this a minute." And Brevoort drew a folded slip of paper from his shirt-pocket and handed it to Pete.
"Yes, I guess it has," laughed Amarilly, "It's been goin' some these last two months!" "Why, what do you mean, Amarilly? and I forgot in my excitement to ask how it helped you. But first tell me. You know there is a pocket in it?" "Yes, Miss King." "Have you noticed anything in the pocket?" "Never looked onct. But then if thar was 'twould hev come out in the wash. It's been did up heaps of times.
Enyhow I's almighty glad fer ter see yer wid dem eyes open onct mor' yas, sah, I sure am." "The doctor?" I questioned in surprise, my voice sounding strange and far away. "Have I been here long?" "Goin' on 'bout ten days, sah. Yer was powerful bad hurt an' out o' yer head, I reckon." "What was it that happened? Did some one shoot me?"
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