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He can see thar's what you-all might call a substratum of seriousness to the observations of Waco an' Shoestring, an' his efforts to solve the mystery that disposes of every law case he has, an' leaves him to begin life anew, comes to a halt! "'But it lets pore Easy Aaron out.
Our average hillsman now goes about in a dirty blue shirt, wapsy and ragged trousers toggled up with a nail or two, thick socks sagging untidily over rusty brogans, and a huge, black, floppy hat that desecrates the landscape. Presently his hatband disappears, to be replaced with a groundhog thong, woven in and out of knife slits, like a shoestring.
"Who done it?" asked Ike, grimly. The cow-puncher shook his head. "None of us," he said, soberly. "We ain't any too lovin' with sheep-herders, but we ain't aimin' to butcher 'em with soft-nose slugs from behind a rock, neither. We picks him up a mile or two out of Shoestring and his hoss is just driftin' along no'th with him while he's slumped up on the seat. There ain't no sheep with him."
A passel of conspirators, with Shoestring Griffith in the lead, goes to this room an' reelaxes into a game of draw. Easy Aaron can hear the flutter of the chips through the partition the same bein' plenty thin where he's camped like a spider in its web an' waitin' for some sport who needs law to show up.
"No, Tom, at least not for the present. I'm going to make another fight to hold on to my fortune. If I find I can't do it alone, then I'll call on you. I'm real glad you called. Bless my shoestring! I feel better now." "I'm glad of it," laughed Tom, and he saw that his friend was in a better state of mind, as his "blessings" showed. Tom remained for a little longer, talking to Mr.
But, as I took off my coat in the lobby, I bent down as if to tie a shoestring, and had one more look at my revolver. I shall never forget that supper as long as I live. Considered merely as a social gathering it would be memorable enough, for I never before or since sat at meat with ten such queer customers as my hosts of that evening.
"Sew up the coat with a shoestring, and let it go at that," suggested Max. "If you want to paste that collar fast again I've got a bottle of glue," said Songbird. "Now ah don't you poke fun at me!" stormed William Philander. "Haven't I suffered enough already?" "Why, we're not poking fun; we're weeping," said Tom, and pretended to wipe his eyes with his handkerchief.
"Better hit the high spots. There's a row back there, now." De Launay swung into the saddle. "See you at Shoestring, this side the Crater," he said, briefly. "Adios!" "So long," said Sucatash, indifferently. De Launay spurred the horse and took the middle of the road on a run. Sucatash looked after him reflectively. "That hombre can ride a whole lot," he remarked.
Jobbers on the street were crying their wares, anxious to sell anything or everything required, from a shoestring to a complete outfit for a four months' journey across the plains. Beads of sweat clung to the merchants' faces as they rushed to and fro, filling orders.
""That prairie dog is hanged a lot," says Shoestring. "Which the boys was goin' to burn him, but on its appearin' that he puts the question more in ignorance than malice, they softens on second thought to that degree they merely gets a rope, adds him to the windmill with the others, an' lets the matter drop." "'Easy Aaron don't crowd his explorations further.
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