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Before any one else could move or speak, Lindsay's gun was out. "Easy now." His voice was a gentle drawl that carried a menace. "Lemme be boss of the rodeo a while. No, Gorilla, I wouldn't play with that club if I was you. I'm sure hell-a-mile on this gun stuff. Drop it!"
"Whatever quarrel you may have with Jack, I hope it will not hinder us from working together without bad feeling between us." Dade threw away his cigarette and took a step nearer, so that the vaqueros could not hear. "Don José, I know you don't like a gringo major domo to lead Don Andres' vaqueros on rodeo.
You have had a long hard spell of it in this rodeo, and yesterday and to-day have not been exactly easy. Shipping is always hell, even when everybody is in a good humor," he smiled grimly. "If you do not object, I would really like to go," said Patches simply. "But your horse is as tired as you ought to be," protested Phil. "I'm riding Stranger, you know," the other answered.
Let the victor pray to the saints and ride Solano, who is five years old and has never felt the riata since he left his mother's side who was a devil. Me, I heard the soul of the patron speak thus, while the lips of the patron said to me: "'Go back to the rodeo, Valencia, and proclaim to all that I will give the grand fiesta with sports to please all.
Alone in the night with this man for whom, even at that first moment of their meeting on the Divide, he had felt a strange sense of kinship, Phil found himself drifting far from the questions that had risen to mar the closeness of their intimacy. The work of the rodeo was over; his cowboy associates, with their suggestive talk, were far away.
Carolyn June once more provided the evening dessert of coffee-jelly and Skinny finished teaching her the art of dipping bread in milk and egg batter, frying it in hot butter, and calling the result "French toast" Skinny again put on the white shirt and the shamrock tinted tie. He had not dared to wear what Chuck called his "love-making rigging" during the week of the Rodeo.
When approaching another range, it was our custom to send a courier in advance to inquire of the ranchero when it would be convenient for him to give us a rodeo. A day would be set, when our outfit and the vaqueros of that range rounded up all the cattle watering at given points.
"Come on and get into the game!" one of them invited, moving over. "Yes," Henderson added, hitching his own chair to one side to make room for another, "the cards are running like" he paused "like the Gold Dust maverick for everybody but the house!" There was a laugh at the subtle reference to the outlaw filly that had cost Sabota so much in losses on the sweepstakes at the Rodeo.
People whose business it is to work every day at the "stunts" they were, for the next five days, to play at for the pleasure of proving their skill and winning the applause of the multitude of spectators packed each day in the grandstand behind the judges' box at the Eagle Butte Rodeo. Every outfit in western Texas sent its most clever riders.
But instantly the spell of her laughter was broken an uneasy thought came upon Hardy, and he glanced up at the soaring sun. "Jeff will be worried about you," he said at last. "He will think you are lost and give up the rodéo to hunt for you. We must not stay here so long." He turned his head instinctively as he spoke, and Kitty knew he was thinking of the sheep.
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