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Updated: May 3, 2025
To a man one never counted Happy Jack's prophecies of disaster as being anything more than a personal deformity of thought they were positive in their belief that the Dot sheepherders would be very, very careful not to provoke the Happy Family to further manifestations of disapproval.
"You're in charge for the present. Take the boys to the big pine and camp there quietly until I come back. I'm going into town." "Hadn't you better take us with you, boss? We'll stick. We're for you an' Bill Santry an' ag'in' these sheepherders, whenever you say the word." "That's hic what we are!" Sullivan hiccoughed. Wade shook his head. "No. You wait for me at the pine.
"Your young friend has seen fit to accuse me of of " For the life of him, he could not at once say of just what he had been accused, unless he allowed self-accusation to prompt his words. "Some sheepherders have been murdered, I believe," he went on, "and Wade seems to think that Moran and I are implicated." "You!" his daughter exclaimed; evidently her amazement did not extend to Moran.
"Maybe in the barn I do not know. Only there never is anything left in my reach. Will you set me free, kind stranger?" "If I can find anything to cut that chain. Let me have the lantern." The woman hesitated, her eyes grown great with fright. "My man, he is the one who choked two sheepherders with his hands. You must have read in the paper " "Maybe it was before my time. Give me down the lantern."
"Mother keeps us supplied. Some of these sheepherders never taste anything but their cold-water biscuits for years at a time." "It must get kind of tiresome," Mackenzie reflected, thinking of his own efforts at bread-making on the road. "It's too heavy to carry around in the craw," said Joan.
Sweeney was holding down the fort at the Del Oro against Fendrick's sheepherders, and his weekly supply of provisions had to be taken to him. Since she wanted to see with her own eyes how things were getting along at the cañon, she was taking the supplies in person. It was a beautiful morning, even for Arizona. The soft air was at its winiest best.
Sheepherders were not welcome among threshers, nor in any other Western community. Of women there were two the wife of the foreman of the ranch, and one who helped her. No person on the ranch was absent, for before the performance the Mildinis had given a sort of sample of their talent; of what all were to expect.
"All right, my boy; we'll let you be the man," Weary told him promptly. "I was going to have a bunch of you take a packadero outfit down toward Boiler Bottom and comb the breaks along there for horses and I sure do hate to spend the whole day chasing sheepherders around over the country.
The list should come out, mules, coyotes, Injuns, Mexicans, ponies, jack rabbits, sheepherders, an' pra'ry dogs, the last two bein' shorely imbecile. "Yes, son; you can lean up ag'inst the intelligence of a mule an' go to sleep. Not but what mules hasn't their illoosions, sech as white mares an' sim'lar reedie'lous inflooences; but them's weaknesses of the sperit rather than of mind.
He leaned forward in the saddle and ogled the bug-killer with horrid significance. "Git busy with that bresh!" he yelled authoritatively, when a glance showed him that the Happy Family was hesitating and eyeing him uncertainly. "Git a fire goin' quick's yuh kin I'll do the rest. Down in Coconino county we used to have a way uh fixin' sheepherders " "Aw, gwan!
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