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Updated: May 15, 2025
The former good-naturedly tossed a cigarette over to the prisoner, with the remark: "Have a smoke, Windy it's the last you'll get for some time." Moran, slumped in a tipped-back chair, blew a whiff of smoke from a lop-sided mouth. "Six months!" chanted he lugubriously, "an' they call this a free country! free hell! "Oh, bury me out on th' lone prair-ee, Where th' wild ki-oot'll howl over me,
"Bury me out on lone prair-ee Out where the snakes and the coyotes be; Drop not a tear on my sage brush grave Out on the lone prair-e-e-e-e-e!" Then the others struck in, their ponies' hoofs making an accompaniment to the gruesome words: "The sands will shift in the desert wind; My bones will rot in the alkali kind; I'll be happier there than ever I be In my grave, on the lone prair-e-e-e-e-e!"
They rambled through all the old familiar songs of the range. The Texan herded his little dogie from the Staked Plains to Abilene; the herd was soothed on the old bed ground bed down my dogie, bed down and the poor cowboy was many times buried far out on the lone prair-ee.
At last Waddles swung into the tune of it and as they buried the poor cowboy far out on the lone prair-ee she noted the difference at once, and more clearly than ever before she divined the reason why cowhands were apparently so devoid of sentiment, refusing to be serious on any topic, passing off those things nearest to their hearts with a callous jest.
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