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Updated: June 27, 2025
Being that sort of weather, nobody was paying no attention worth speaking of to nothing: and when the Denver train come in being about three hours late, like it had a way of being, after a wash-out the place was in such a blister that pretty much all you could hear to show anybody was alive in Palomitas was snores.
The Hen blew in one day on Hill's coach, coming from Santa Fé, setting up on the box with him Hill run his coach all the time the track was stuck at Palomitas, it being quicker for Santa Fé folks going up that way to Pueblo and Denver and Leadville than taking the Atchison out to El Moro and changing to the Narrow Gauge and she was so all over dust that Wood sung out to him: "Where'd you get your Sage-Brush Hen from?"
As to the ladies of the town, he said she told him they certainly was the most domestic she'd ever known! Hart was so grateful and he had a right to be he left a hunderd dollars with Tenderfoot Sal and told her to blow off the town for him that night by running a free bar. Sal done it, right enough and that turned out to be about the hottest night Palomitas ever had.
"Good Heavens!" says he, getting real palish. "What a dreadful thing this is!" Santa let go of Mike's head and got up, brushing his pants off, and says solemn: "Our poor brother has passed from us. Palomitas has lost one of its most useful citizens there was nobody who could mix drinks as he could and the world has lost a noble man!
And as to having to wait around before she went East, she said, in one way it didn't make any matter seeing she'd be well cared for and comfortable at Palomitas staying in the house of the Baptist minister, who'd married her aunt. Hill said when she went to talking about Baptist ministers and aunts in Palomitas he shook so laughing inside he most fell off the box.
After the Mexican who kept the Santa Cruz post-office had made the mess he always did with the mail matter, and had got the cussing he always got from Hill for doing it, they started off again coming slow through that bit of extra heavy road along by the Rio Grande, but getting to the deepo at Palomitas all serene to ketch the Denver train.
"Justice!" says Charley, talking as dignified as a just-swore-in sheriff. "As I explained to you this morning, sir, nobody in Palomitas ever stands in the way of a fair fight like the one you happened to come in on at the finish a few hours ago any more than good citizens, elsewhere and under different conditions, interfere with the processes of the courts.
But allowances was to be made for Hill owing to the ways he'd got into driving mules. As I've said, folks in Palomitas mostly got for names what happened to come handiest and fitted.
And I'm happier'n I expected to be, finding out how quiet and respectable Palomitas is not a bit what your letters made me think it was and such real good people living in it, and everything but the queer country and the queer mud houses just like it is at home. Mr. Hill has been telling me all about it, coming over, and about this new church you're building that you gave the lot for.
Next morning, having pretty much slept himself sober, Hart's nephew went cavorting around Palomitas that little runt did like he was about ten foot tall! He had the whole thing over, in the course of the day, a dozen times or more; and as he kept on telling it now he was sober enough to add things on it got to be about the biggest fight with road-agents that ever was.
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