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I'd have got some pleasure out of my broken leg then, maybe." "Was it did Buck Olney break it?" Billy Louise knew he had not, but she had been waiting for a chance to open the subject. "No. I broke it myself, pulling Rattler off a bank into some rocks. I believe I could walk on it, doctor, if you could rustle me something to use for crutches. That's what held me in bed so long.
A pushing, active, brilliant fellow, you know, like Rattler can get along, and will soon be in his old position again, and you needn't be hard on him, you know, if he doesn't. Good-by." I was too much disgusted with his treatment of that Rattler to be at all amiable, but as his business was profitable, I promised to attend to it, and he left. A few weeks passed.
Folks around here are going to know all about you, old-timer, whether they get to read what's on your back or not. "And, on the other hand, it's a million-to-one shot you'll land where your ticket reads. I'd hate to gamble on that horse standing in one spot for two or three days, wouldn't you?" He wheeled Rattler unobtrusively, his eye on the pinto. "I hope he don't try to follow," he said.
Well, I jest notioned it would be some cowardly ter shoot while I held the brute that way. Beside, I didn't want ter shatter the skull too much. Biggest rattler I've seen seven feet long if it's an inch, and worth preservin'. Say, those bees look like givin' us trouble. Best hustle through with breakfast, and then get along to the traps. The honey c'n wait.
But if the foe could succeed in carrying a positive veto on the second reading, it would under all the circumstances be tantamount to a vote of want of confidence. "I'm afraid they know almost more than we do as to the feeling of members," said Mr. Roby to Mr. Rattler.
"Nor his audacity," said Mr. Rattler. "But he has peculiar gifts of his own, and gifts fitted for the peculiar combination of circumstances, if he will only be content to use them. He is a just, unambitious, intelligent man, in whom after a while the country would come to have implicit confidence. But he is thin-skinned and ungenial."
When the nights have been long, and darkness has been in his lodge, while the young men slept, he has thought of the hardships of his people. He has said to himself, Teton, count the scalps in your smoke. They are all red but two! Does the wolf destroy the wolf, or the rattler strike his brother?
No, it's not budding yet," he added, with his eye to the glass. "You see that ledge just to the left? I dropped a big rock from the Point square on a rattler who was sunning himself there last spring. I can see a foothold all the way up the cliff. It can be done," he concluded, in a tone that made me turn sharply upon him. "Do you really mean to climb up there?" I asked, harshly.
Then he went down into the gulch, jumped the creek with his load and got a foot wet where his boot leaked along the sole and climbed hurriedly up to where Rattler waited and dozed in the sunshine, with the reins dropped to the ground. Rattler objected to those fresh wolf-skins, and Ward lifted a disciplinary boot-toe to his ribs.
"Stop your laughing, Ward Warren!" You Rattler, I'll fix you for that!" She turned to Ward and twisted her lips at him. "I see now why you named him that," she said. "Because he rattles your teeth loose." "You keep off him!" Ward shouted sternly. "You keep still!" Billy Louise shouted back at him. "We're going to find out right now who's boss."
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