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Updated: May 29, 2025
"You'll be able to eat better." And she ran to the pony. From a saddle-pocket she took her own lunch of sandwiches and ripe olives wrapped in oiled paper. She delayed her return to loosen the forward cincha of the saddle and to find the little stock of cigarette-papers and tobacco that she carried for any chance rider of the Moonstone who might be without them.
Fortunately he had his pliers in the saddle-pocket, and, taking down the wires, he forced the creature through and headed for a deep gully the mouth of which lay a few hundred yards to the left. Penetrating into this as far as he was able, he took out his Colt and deliberately shot the steer through the head.
Williams drew Long's flask from his saddle-pocket. "Give him a shot of this. Take some yourself. Miguel and I don't need any. Hold on I'll give Red a shot first. When it gets to workin', you yip and ride for the hills. We'll all ride ride, you understand? It'll be a dry camp, and a hard flash, but we'll make it."
Folding the paper in his two hands, he declared he believed his tobacco was in his saddle-pocket, and asked leave to step across the street to get it. The trick was too transparent, and leave was refused with scorn and some hard words. Whispering Smith begged the men in front of him in turn for tobacco. They cursed him and shook their heads. For an instant he looked troubled.
Wonder what's in that saddle-pocket." He pulled himself erect slowly and tenderly. His knees were very shaky. His head throbbed like a squeezed boil, but he wanted to learn what was in that saddle-pocket. Possibly he might obtain therein a clue to the horse's owner.
I have often been asked how I managed in those days about toilette arrangements, when it was impossible to carry any luggage except a small "swag," closely packed in a waterproof case and fastened on the same side as the saddle-pocket.
He set the pail down empty. "I was some dry," he said, smiling. "Got any more of these rawhide flapjacks?" The herder nodded, stooped to enter the shack, and came out with a half-dozen of the tortillas, which Andy rolled and stuffed in his saddle-pocket. "Mighty good trail bread!" he said enthusiastically. "You can't wear 'em out."
The Tertium Quid pulled his moustache, and replied that horrid people were unworthy of the consideration of nice people. 'But they have done more than talk they have written written to my hubby I'm sure of it, said the Man's Wife, and she pulled a letter from her husband out of her saddle-pocket and gave it to the Tertium Quid.
She had noticed those initials then on his saddle-pocket, and knowing how unusual it was for a cow-man to touch his precious saddle with a knife, she made some casual comment, and learned how it had come into Buck's possession. What did it mean? What was he doing here on a Rocking-R horse? Above all, where was he?
"I reckon he's about half shot," he said, sliding over in the saddle and getting out the inevitable tobacco sack and papers. "Old Pete Williams rode past while you were gone, loaded to the guards and with a bottle uh whisky in each saddle-pocket and two in his coat. He gave me a drink, and then he went on and stopped at camp. He was hung up there for quite a spell, I noticed.
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