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"Judd, he's the foreman of the Lazy D." Below them appeared the corrals and houses of a ranch nestling in a little valley flanked by hills. "This yere's the Lazy D," announced the youth, with pride, and in the spirit of friendliness suggested a caution. "Judd, he's some peppery. You wanter smooth him down some, seeing as he's riled up to-day." A flicker of steel came into the blue eyes. "Indeed!
"I looked at him gruff-like a moment or two, for it seemed to me he was raither too familiar for a stranger, but he's got such a pleasant, hearty look with him as you know that I couldn't feel riled with 'im, so `I'm goin' on the spree, says I. "`All right, says he, `I'm with 'ee, lad. D'ye know the town?
This riled me considerable and I told them all right, to come again when they wanted a horse broken. That settled us and the horse breaking. The experiences I gained in riding during these times, often stood me in good stead in after years during my wild life on the western plains. Mr.
"Ay, but how long did it last?" demanded the skipper, hitting the table with his fist. "Oh, please, have pity on the tea-cups, uncle Rik," cried the hostess. "Beg pardon, sister, but I can't help getting riled when I hear younkers talkin' stuff.
The Injuns robbed 'em of everything they had an' kept 'em prisoners. "But ole Dan'l wuz a slick un. He'd been studyin' Injuns all his life an' he knowed 'em frum a ter izard. They didn't have nothin' but bows an' arrers then an' he had a rifle thes like mine. He never got flustered or riled by the way they wuz treatin' him, but let on like he wuz happy ez er June bug.
"I reckon you're a little riled, aint ye?" said the man; but I made him no answer, and left him to explain to Mr. Chipperton his remark about stealing the boat. They set off soon after me, and we had a race down the creek. I was "a little riled," and I pulled so hard that the other boat did not catch up to me until we got out into the river.
Ellen watched her father eat and waited for him to speak. It occured to her strangely that he never asked about the sheep or the new-born lambs. She divined with a subtle new woman's intuition that he cared nothing for his sheep. "Ellen, what riled Daggs?" inquired her father, presently. "He shore had fire in his eye."
Then, as he struggled to secure an upright position, "Don't git riled, honey. Of course you'd let them kill you before YOU'D give in. But that's their best holt that's their trade! That's all they can do don't you see? That's where YOU'RE not like THEM that's why you're not their low down kind! That's why you're my boy that's why I love you!"
He wa'n't well pleased that she didn't have no children; and she was sort o' jealous o' him 'cause she got hold o' some sort of story about how he was to a married somebody else over there in England: so she got sort o' riled up, jest as wim-men will, the best on 'em; and they was pretty apt to have spats, and one could give t'other as good as they sent; and, by all accounts, they fit putty lively sometimes.
He is fond of a joke himself, and will stand having a good many sticks poked at him without getting riled; but when he does get his back up, it's well enough to stand out of his way, and not step on his shadow. He never struck a man but once in real earnest, and that was over in Keeseville, and on that occasion the people said the town clock had struck one.
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