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Updated: May 29, 2025
"Come, wife," said he, "never lower thy flag to such light skirmishers as these. Hast a tongue i' thy head as well as they." "Alack, good soldier, I was not bred to bandy foul terms." "Well, but hast a better arm than these. Why not take 'em by twos across thy knee, and skelp 'em till they cry Meculpee?" "Nay, I would not hurt their bodies for all their cruel hearts."
She's still the Black Cloud's squaw; an' after she pulls her marital picket pin an' while she's gettin' away, if the bereaved Black Cloud crosses up with her he's free, onder the license permitted to Injun husbands, to kill her an' skelp her an' dispose of her as consists best with his moods.
"You may feel that way now, Sol," said Long Jim, "but you jest wait till the Injun comes at you fur your skelp. Then you'll change your mind quicker'n lightnin', an' you'll reach fur your gun, an' blow his head off." "Reckon you're right, Jim," said the shiftless one. Silent Tom stared at them in amazement. "What's the matter, Tom?" asked Paul. "Why do you look at them in that manner?"
"'Which I don't see none how you're goin' to renig, says Dave Tutt. 'This debauchee is doo to shoot you on sight. Them army rooles shortly should permit a gent to scout off to one side the strict trail a little; partic'lar when it's come down to savin' his own skelp.
At last he looked his stunned and rigid comrade impressively in the face, and said, with an expression of concentrated awe: "Jim, he b'iled his baby, and he took the old 'oman's skelp. Cuss'd if I want any breakfast!" And he laid his lingering potato reverently down, and he and his friend departed from the restaurant empty but satisfied. He NEVER GOT DOWN to where the satire part of it began.
This old bronco fancier's skelp is over on my bridle, if you thinks you'd know it. "'No, says Pickles, mighty onconcerned, 'it can't be my oncle nohow. If he's one of my fam'ly, it would be your ha'r on his bridle. It must be some old shorthorn of a Mohave you downs. Let's all take a drink on it.
But it ain't good for a man like him to start out killin'; it goes to his liver too quick and drives him mooney." "I don't suppose it's very healthy for any man, Dad." "You said it! I've went fifty miles around a range to skip a feller that was lookin' for my skelp, and I'd go a thousand before I'd crowd a fight.
At last he looked his stunned and rigid comrade impressively in the face, and said, with an expression of concentrated awe: "Jim, he b'iled his baby, and he took the old 'oman's skelp. Cuss'd if I want any breakfast!" And he laid his lingering potato reverently down, and he and his friend departed from the restaurant empty but satisfied. He never got down to where the satire part of it began.
What kept him to his agreement was the hope of stealing the spare mules, and the fear that the draft might not be paid if he shirked his work. "I s'pose I must show his skelp," thought Texas, "or they won't hand over the dust." At last there was a sound; he had set his ambush just right; there were voices in the distance; then hoofs in the grass.
"Which this yere is almighty flatterin' to Mace as a shot, an' it plumb tickles the boy's sire. He allows he's lived in Arkansaw, an' shorely knows good shootin', an' this yere's speshul good. An' then he corrals the Greaser's skelp to take back with him.
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