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They were just about to shoot at us when you appeared up here." "'Pache bad Injun," vouchsafed Juan. "Were those Apaches?" questioned Tad. The guide shrugged his shoulders. "I was sure they were, though I do not think I ever saw an Apache before. They don't live about here, do they, Juan?" "'Pache off reservation. Him go dance. Firewater! Ugh!" making a motion as if scalping himself.
"Well," he said, "I can't figure it out maybe you wouldn't mind telling me how it happened." "Why hell, man," burst out the sheepman, "it's as plain as the nose on your face I didn't belong to the Association. All these big sheepmen that drive north and south belong to the Sheepmen's Protective Association, and they stand in with each other, but we little fellows up in 'Pache County was nobody.
There were others also who were showing the white feather, among them Pache, who was whimpering involuntarily, in the low, soft voice of a little baby, his eyes suffused with tears. Lapoulle's stomach betrayed him and he was very ill; and there were many others who also found relief in vomiting, amid their comrade's loud jeers and laughter, which helped to restore their courage to them all.
Lapoulle, observing what all his comrades were doing, must have supposed the performance to be some recent innovation in the manual, and followed suit, while Pache, in the confused idea of duty that he owed to his religious education, refused to do as the rest were doing and was loaded with obloquy by Chouteau, who called him a priest's whelp. "Look at the sniveling papist!
Jean uttered a cry of pleasure. "Ah, so it's you, at last! I had begun to think you were in the river." He was there with what remained of the squad, Pache and Lapoulle, Loubet and Chouteau. The last named had slept under doorways in Sedan until the attention of the Prussian provost guard had finally restored them to their regiment.
But, famishing as they were, their stomachs revolted; they felt the want of salt, they could not swallow that tasteless, sickening broth, those chunks of half-cooked, viscid meat that had a taste like clay. Some among them had a fit of vomiting. Pache was very ill.
"Gineral," said the Irishman, taking off the silk hat which Desmit had worn and waving it in the air; "Gineral, I have the honor to inthroduce to ye anl auld gintleman one av the vera furst families that's come out to mate ye, an' begs that ye'll taste jest a dhrap av the finest auld pache that ivver ran over yer tongue, jist ter cilebrate this vera joyful occasion,"
I got a strong guarantee with this suit when I bought it. I'm goin' to give you the same one I got. It won't shrink or fade and it will wear to beat a 'Pache pup. Oh, you won't make any mistake buyin' this suit." "You take from me an advice. Unlock that door and get out." "I can give you better advice than that. Buy this suit right away. You'll find it's a bargain."
Chouteau's and Loubet's wrath vented itself in a volley of maledictions, while Pache shook Lapoulle, who, unmindful of his ducking, slept through it all as if he was never to wake again.
"You are in the same boat, you, who pretend to believe in the good God. He has forbidden men to fight, your good God has. Why, then, are you here, you great simpleton?" "Dame!" Pache doubtfully replied, "it is not for any pleasure of mine that I am here but the gendarmes "
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