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Updated: June 27, 2025
And then the little Mexican switched his big black beard off and right smack there before us was the Sage-Brush Hen! You never heard such a yell as the boys give in all your born days! And you never in all your born days saw such goings on as there was that night at the Forest Queen! Everybody in Palomitas was right there.
I give much time to my sermons; and I am cheered by the conviction you must not think me boastful that it is time well employed. When I look around me and perceive the lawless, and even outrageous, conditions which obtain in so many other towns in the Territory, and contrast them with the orderly rectitude of Palomitas, I rejoice that my humble toil in the vineyard has brought so rich a reward.
Hill said they'd got along to Pojuaque by the time the Hen had finished telling about herself, and the fix she was in because she had to wait along with her aunt in Palomitas till her transportation come from Washington and she just sick to get East and grab her little Willy in her arms. And the old gent was that interested in it all, Hill said, it was a sight to see how he went on.
Green, the gentleman who shot her husband, was shot right off himself she feels, as we all do, that the incident is closed." And then Kerosene put in: "Great Scott, mister, you don't know Palomitas! Widows in these parts don't set round moping their heads off all the rest of their lives. They wait long enough for politeness same as I've done and then they start in on a new deal."
"And now let's turn to and get poor old Bill planted. We've kind of lost sight of Bill in the excitement and we owe him a good deal. If Santa Fé hadn't started the reform movement by shooting him, we'd still be going on in the same old way. You may say it's all Bill's doings that Palomitas has been give the clean-up it wanted, and wanted bad!"
It was a June evening, and the sun about setting; and somehow it all was so sort of peaceful and uncommon with everybody in sight sober, and no fighting anywhere, and that little old lady going along, believing Palomitas was like that always, instead of the hell on earth it was some of us more'n half believed we'd gone to sleep and got stuck in a dream.
Well, of course that set things to going pleasant between 'em; and when she'd allowed she was Hart's aunt, and said she was glad to meet a friend of his, she started in asking all the questions about Bill and about Palomitas she knowed how to ask.
"It's to me poor dead brother's health I'll be drinking, and with all the good-will in the world!" They had another after that; and then Blister said there was luck in odd numbers, and he wanted to show Palomitas knowed how to be hospitable to strangers, and they must have one on the bar.
The Hen seemed to be in two minds about it for a minute, Hill said, and then she thanked him, sweet as sugar, for his goodness to her in her time of trouble; and told him it would be a real comfort to go East with such a kind escort to take care of her but she said it wouldn't work, because she was expected in Palomitas, and not stopping there would be disappointing to her dear uncle and aunt.
It was felt that outsiders and 'specially ladies oughtn't to get no such treatment; and so they had a spring house-cleaning after what I reckon was the worst winter a town ever went through and Durango was sobered right down. Palomitas went along the same trail, and took the same pass over the divide.
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