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Updated: September 18, 2025
Bowie, of Texas," explained Mr. Cassidy to the other Mexican. Then he glanced at the broncho, that was squealing in rage and fear at the shot, which sounded like a cannon in the small room, and laughed. "That's my cayuse, all right, an' he wasn't up no cactus nor roostin' on th' roof, neither. He's th' most affectionate beast I ever saw.
Christmas! An' a boy! An' she doin' well! No wonder that ol' turkey-gobbler sets up on them rafters blinkin' at me so peaceful! He knows he's done passed a critical time o' life. You've done crossed another bridge safe-t, ol' gobbly, an' you can afford to blink an' to set out in the clair moonlight, 'stid o' roostin' back in the shadders, same ez you been doin'.
Back in June she made a trip to the cabin double quick to warn the varmint roostin' there. In her haste she dropped a bow of purple ribbon which with some other finery a certain little store-keeper gives her to do his spyin' fur him. It's a blamed lovely cabal in this town. I know 'em all by name.
"'What's the use of quittin', says he, 'while there's bait left and the fish are bitin'? Why not keep her goin' through September and October? Two or three ads MY ads in the papers, hintin' that the ducks and wild geese are beginnin' to keep the boarders awake by roostin' in the back yard and hollerin' at night two or three of them, and we'll have gunners here by the regiment.
If he'd ever stood stiff on his feet when he was a boy, he needn't 'a' been so everlastin' tall; but he was forever roostin' on fences' with his laigs danglin', 'n' the heft of his feet stretched 'em out, it couldn't do no dif'rent. I ain't got no patience with him." "Jabe has considerable many good points," said Miss Cummins loyally; "he's faithful, you always know where to find him."
"We are still layin' in camp, but expectin' every day orders to move out for a little soshable with Mister Joe Johnston, whose roostin over on Pigeon Mountain. When we git at him, there won't be no pigeon about it, but a game ov fox-and- geese with us for the foxes. "Little Pete Skidmore is in the company, all rite.
"Anyway, Hannah coughed for a day or two more, and then her brother come totin' in a big bottle of med'cine. "'There! he says. 'That'll fix you! "'Where'd you get it? says she. "'Down to Henry Tubman's, he says. "'Henry Tubman! What on earth! Why, Henry Tubman's a horse doctor! "'I know he is, says Kenelm, solemn as a roostin' pullet, 'but we've been fishin' with the wrong bait.
J. Dudley Simms is still roostin' alongside the wireless cabin; and just beyond, crouched behind a stanchion with one ear juttin' out, is Captain Killam. "Fine!" says I. "Rupert's got a steady job, eh?" About then the other folks commence mobilizin' for a drive on the dinin'-room, and someone calls Dudley to come along. "Just a moment," says he, scribblin' on a pad.
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