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Bill followed willingly enough, but he failed to understand his companion's excitement. After all they were merely bent upon "roping" a stray horse.
If Tommy didn't lie some every day, he'd get sick." I was sleepy, but I murmured assent to this, and trusted he would not go on. "Ever notice," said he, "how the victims of the whiskey and lyin' habit get to increasing the dose?" "Yes," said I. "Him roping six bears!" pursued Mr. McLean, after further contemplation. "Or any bear.
"Well," said he, "did you meet a man going out as you came in? His errand was to get a man out of the penitentiary, and now you come to get a boy out of jail. I am bothered to death about these pardon cases; but I am a little encouraged by your visit. They are after me on the men, but appear to be roping you in on the boys. What shall we do? The trouble appears to come from the courts.
Archer, he hastened from the room, swung into his saddle, and rode swiftly around to the corral. A brief search through the darkness showed him that only a single horse remained there. He lost not a moment in roping the animal, and was transferring his saddle from Pete, when Bud appeared. "You'll have to catch a horse from the remuda," he said briefly. "I've taken the last one.
"I reckon Denver brought it from Slauson's. He was ridin' that country yesterday, and as the boys was out of smokin' he come home that way." "I suppose you'll all go?" "I reckon." "And you'll ride?" "I aim to sit in." "At the roping, too?" "No, m'm. I ain't so much with the rope. It takes a Mexican to snake a rope."
Tom reined his pony into the group of young people and began spinning yarns, some of which perhaps had but a thin warp of truth. He thought it was his privilege to "string along the tenderfoots" a little. One thing he told the girls and Walter, however, interested them immensely. "You know, I came pretty near roping that black outlaw the day of the tornado. Criminy, if I'd got him!"
We were sorry to miss Enrique's roping; for having snapped his saddle horn with the first cast, he recovered his rope, fastened it to the fork of his saddletree, and tied his steer in fifty-four seconds, or within ten of the winner's record.
He would sing more to himself than to anybody else, and if this began to bore him at all, he would stop in the middle and leave the story untold. Then sometimes, when we outspanned for an hour at noon, the four special camera porters would give imitations of Kearton and Gobbet taking pictures, of Loveless shoeing horses, or of Means in the act of roping.
I'd have told her that if she'd stay at home more, and keep the holes in her stockings darned, and her underclothes cleaner, she'd stand a better chance roping in some fool man. I'm plain and outspoken, and I resent sneaking hints and false grins as quick as I do slaps. I'm tired o' you doing the way you are, anyhow. I want you to be like the rest of the girls.
She gave me a dig about the quantity of canned fruit I had eaten, and I got back at her, flat-footed, about how a certain lady named Eve started the fruit trouble in the first free-grass pasture 'Over in Palestine, wasn't it? says I, as easy and pat as roping a one-year-old.
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