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None of our troops ever stray this fair west. 'Tis out of United States territory. The Texans claim it. But those are not Texans: they are uniformed, and carry lances. Your old friends, the Rangers, don't affect that sort of thing." "No," responds Wilder, with a contemptuous toss of the head, "I shedn't think they did. We niver tuk to them long sticks; 'bout as much use as bean-poles.
I shedn't now be surprised at anythin'. Come, Nat; don't stan' shilly-shallyin', but tell me all about it. Whar did ye git the gun?" "On Peecawn Crik. Thar we kim acrost a party o' Tenawa Kimanch, unner a chief they call Horned Lizart, o' the whom ye've heern. He han't no name now, seein' he's rubbed out, wi' the majority of his band. We did that.
I don know why I shed a thort so; but maybe 'twar because thar's been some others come here to settle o' late, an' found squatters on thar groun jest the same as Holt's on yourn. That's why ye heerd me say, a while ago, that I shedn't like to buy over his head." "And why not?" I awaited the answer to this question, not without a certain degree of nervous anxiety.
"I'm a'most ashamed," continued he, at length, "to put another question, that war on the top o' my tongue." "I shall take pleasure in answering any question you may think proper to ask me." "I shedn't ask it, if it wa'n't for what you've jest now said: for I heerd the same question put to you this night afore, an' I heerd your answer to it.
"Yes I shedn't like to be the party that would buy it over his head." The speaker accompanied these words with a significant glance, which seemed to say, "I wonder if that's his business here." "Has he any family?" "Thar's one a young critter o' a girl." "That all?" I asked seeing that my companion hesitated, as if he had something more to say, but was backward about declaring it.
I don't see why I shedn't tell ye all about this bisness. I don know the reezun, but you've made me feel a kind o' confidence in you. I know it's a silly sort o' thing to fall in love wi' a handsum girl; but if ye'd only seen her!"
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