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What sort of a fellow is this Tenny, over at the Rocking-R?" "He's white," returned Bud promptly. "No squarer ranch-boss around the country. I'd of gone there instead of the Shoe-Bar, only they was full up. What was yuh thinkin' of bracin' him for a job?" "Not exactly, though I'd like Lynch to think I'd been taken on there.
He seemed the typical ranch-boss, whose chief thought is to get the work done, and his berating was entirely impartial. Bud had spent most of his time around the ranch, but once or twice he rode out with the others, and there was no attempt on their part to keep him and Buck from talking together as privately as they pleased.
Take your time; for I left my gun on my saddle-horn. "Old Mac laughs, and he says to me: 'Pumpin' lead into the best ranch-boss in West Texas don't seem to me good business policy. I don't know where I could get as good a one. It's the son-in-law idea, Webb, that makes me admire for to use you as a target. You ain't my idea for a member of the family.
This was not in the contract, but it was a part read into the paper by Sage-brush. "Say, my name's Sage-brush Charley," he cried, with a show of importance. "I'm ranch-boss for Payson. If you want to settle any old claim agin' Jack, I'm actin' as his substitoot for him this evenin'." "On the contrary," said Lane, with a smile at Sage-brush's outbreak, "he has a claim against me."
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