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Updated: June 27, 2025
Them three was the girls the Hen had done best with; and she'd fixed 'em off so well they most might have passed for back-East school-ma'ams at least, in a thickish crowd. Everybody else just stood around and looked on and that time, with all the Forest Queen ways of managing dancing upset, it was the turn of the Palomitas folks to think they'd struck a dream!
But when he'd cleaned up his railroad job, and took to asking questions about the Territory, and Palomitas, and things generally and got the sort of answers Santa Fé had fixed should be give him, with some more throwed in Wood said his feet showed to be that tender he allowed it would a-hurt him with thick boots on to walk on boiled beans.
Hill slept at the Forest Queen, the nights he was in Palomitas he drove one way one day and the other way the next and the boys made things cheerfuller for him by all the time rigging him about the poor show he had for sticking long at his job.
When he'd quieted, the train conductor swung his lantern to start her, and off she went the little man standing there on the back platform of the Pullman, a-grabbing at the railing like he was dizzy, looking back with all his eyes. And old Shorty up on the telegraph-pole, making a black splotch twisting about in the moonlight, was the last bit of Palomitas he seen!
"And now, I assure you, sir, this reprehensible practical joking for which I beg your indulgence definitely is ended; and I am glad to promise that you will find in evidence, during the remainder of your stay in Palomitas, only the friendliness and the courtesy which truly are the essential characteristics of our seemingly turbulent little town."
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