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"'He drummed on the table for a long time, and then says, sort of immaterial and irreverent, 'You're a pretty good mule puncher, eh? "'It ain't for me to say I'm the best in the Territory, I says; 'but I'm curious to meet the feller that claims the title. "He continues, 'It reminds me of an exhibition I saw once, back in New Mexico, long time ago, at the little Flatwater Canyon.
The young puncher disappeared again into Dolan's. Afterward, when Bear Cat began to assemble its recollections of the events prior to the dramatic climax, it was surprising how little that was authentic could be recalled. Probably a score of people noted casually the three strangers. Houck was recognized by three or four, Bandy Walker by at least one.
And he no more knew how to make good in the business than the year-old baby busy with its toes. But ere this men have killed dragons and made wonders come to pass all for the sake of their ladies' eyes. Men as prosaic and matter-of-fact as the puncher, Racey Dawson. Quite so. Half-an-hour after the departure of Luke Tweezy Mr. Saltoun and Tom Loudon rode in on lathered horses.
Mebbe they'll get here. Mebbe they won't." "Then you don't think it's worth trying?" "Sure I do. Every little helps. It might make Pasquale sit steady in the boat till I get a chance to pull off something." When Daisy Ellington heard of the plan she went straight to Yeager. "What's this I hear about you committing suicide?" she demanded. "News to me, compadre," smiled the puncher.
The Puncher dropped her stern two feet or so, and the foam boiled brown round her propellers. The shock of the reversal pitched the pilot up against the forward rail, where he clung like a drowning man. "For the love o' God, sah! Captain; sah, we've struck! Ah told you so; Ah said " "And a half-three!" chanted Joe Byng. "Stop her! Starboard engine ahead! Port engine ahead! Ease your helm!
"Looks is deceivin'," he said. "I've got a heap of burden on my mind. I've got a thousand dollars which is botherin' me considerable." The puncher sat erect, his eyes bulging. "You've got a thousand!" he said "Oh, Lordy! An' you're botherin' about it?" "It ain't none of your business, of course," said Calumet. "An' I reckon I'm tellin' you about it so's you'll feel mean about losin' your own.
Breakfast is ready." At this the puncher sullenly went to rouse the sleeper. Ashton came out rubbing his eyes; but after a dip in the pool, he declared himself restored by his long sleep and ready for a day's work. During the night his bandage had come loose. He would have tossed it away, but Blake insisted upon re-dressing the wound.
"If you had been a cow puncher instead of a contractor," she told him, "I'm sure you would long ago have ended your life in some dash over a cutbank." Meanwhile Drazk pursued his way to town.
I took the chance to look at his ears, and saw that the marking had been done quite recent, so when we got in that night I reported to Buck Johnson that one of the punchers was gettin' lazy and sleeperin'. Naturally he went after the man who had done it; but every puncher swore up and down, and back and across, that he'd branded every calf he'd had a rope on that spring.
Some of the supply merchants had several thousand of these articles de luxe in their stock. In later years they gave them away to Indians and Mexicans. "Do you know where Jack Goodheart is?" asked Lee of the nearest youth. "No, ma'am, but I'll go hunt him for you," answered the puncher promptly. "Thank you." Ten minutes later a bronzed rider swung down in front of the Snaith home.
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