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Updated: June 27, 2025
The wind had set in to blow down the valley cool and pleasant as they was getting along home; and coming down on it, when they got about half a mile from Palomitas, they begun to hear shooting and it kept on, and more of it, the closer they come to town.
Bears wasn't bad sport, he said, and he didn't mind filling in time with 'em if he couldn't get nothing better; but what he'd come to Palomitas for 'special, he said, was mountain-lions he seemed to have it in his head he'd find 'em walking all over the place, same as cats and he wanted to know if any'd lately been seen.
"My brave preserver!" says the Hen, speaking cheerful. "Come down to me that I may bedew with tears of gratitude your bones!" Some of them summer days in Palomitas was that hot they'd melt the stuffing out of a lightning-rod, and you could cook eggs in the pockets of your pants.
But the cyclone himself didn't think there was anything small about him: being Hart's nephew so scared to death all the few wits he ever had was knocked clean out of him who come into Palomitas, white as white-wash, riding bareback one of the coach mules.
And then he kind of chucked it in casual that as the little man didn't seem to take much stock in Palomitas maybe he'd a-done as well if he'd stuck at home.
It was while he was hashing, Charley said, the notion come to him how Palomitas might have some real sport with him the same kind they had when Hart's aunt come on her visit, only twisting things round so it would be the holy terror side of the town that had the show.
Cherry said he begun to have a notion, though, while Hart was talking, how the thing might be worked so there wouldn't be no real trouble if it could be fixed so Hart's aunt wouldn't stay in Palomitas more'n about a day; and he come right on down to the Forest Queen to see if he could get the boys to help him put it through.
But when the track come in, and the higher civilization come in a-yelling with it and spread itself, Palomitas could give points to the Cañada in cussedness all down the line. Most of it right away was saloons and dance-halls; and the pressure for faro accommodation was such the padre thought he could make money by closing down his own monte-bank and renting.
She asked him if there was a school in Palomitas, and he told her there wasn't, because all the folks in town was so young except the natives, who hadn't no use for schools they hadn't any children big enough to go to one. And then she said sudden, and as it seemed to him changing the subject: "Isn't there a kindergarten?"
We do not always stand strictly on etiquette here in Palomitas; and I saw that I had to put my cards down quick I mean that I had to intervene hurriedly to save you from being really annoyed. Now that I have cleared up the trifling misunderstanding, I trust satisfactorily, we will go back to where we ought to have started and I will ask Mr. Charles to introduce us."
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