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Updated: June 27, 2025
In the Forest Queen bar-room was the biggest bank there was in town. Blister Mike he was Irish, Blister was, and Sal's bar-keep had some sort of a share in it; but it was run by a feller who'd got the name of Santa Fé Charley, he having had a bank over in Santa Fé afore Sal give him the offer to come across to Palomitas and take charge.
It was a square dance to start in with: with the little man and the Hen, and Charley and Kerosene Kate, a-facing each other; and Denver Jones with Carrots that was the only name she ever had in Palomitas and Shorty Smith and Juanita, at the sides.
He said at first he only meant to play a short lone hand for the fun of the thing; and it was the way the little man swallowed whatever was give him, he said, that made the game keep on a-growing till it ended up by roping in the whole town. So off he went, explaining fatherly how it come that preachers and brandys-and-sodas in Palomitas got along together first class.
When Bill Hart, who was a good fellow and kept the principal store in Palomitas, got word his aunt in Vermont was coming out to pay him a visit it being too late to stop her, and he knowing he'd have to worry the thing through somehow till he could start her back East again he was the worst broke-up man you ever seen. "Great Scott!
Palomitas was a purer town, Cherry said it was him led off in the purifying after we was shut of 'em, and of some others that was fired for company; and I won't say he wasn't right in making out it was a better town, maybe, when we'd got it so blame pure.
William Hart's aunt is coming to pay him a visit, and will strike this town either by the Denver train to-morrow morning or the Santa Fé coach to-morrow afternoon. She is a perfect lady, and it is ordered that during her stay in Palomitas this town has got to behave itself so her feelings won't be hurt. She is to be took care of and given a pleasant impression.
Whipping done some good, Hill used to say; but cuss-words was the only sure things to make mules go. "Well, boys," said Cherry, when the yelling let up a little. "I guess getting shut of Santa Fé that way is better'n hanging him; and I guess with him and the Hen and the rest of 'em fired out of it we've got Palomitas purified about down to the ground.
Things wasn't any time what you might call too extra quiet in Palomitas; but when them two the Hen and Santa Fé started in together to run any racket you may bet your life there was a first-class circus from the word go! Grass didn't grow much under their feet, either.
And then, having got the boys worked up wondering what he was driving at, Cherry went ahead and said he wanted 'em to agree just for the little while Hart's aunt was going to stay there to run Palomitas like it was a regular back-East Sunday-school town.
Seems to me at nights, sometimes, I can hear that old windmill going around creaking and clumpetty-clumpetting now! Palomitas means "little doves" but I reckon the number of them birds about the place was few.
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