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"That is none of your business who they or we are!" retorted Hippy Wingate sternly. "Say, you fellow! Looking for trouble?!" demanded Hi in an even voice. "Pass that bucket to me!" commanded Hippy. "Ye want thet bucket, hey?" leered the desert rider. Then, quick as a flash he emptied the contents of it over Lieutenant Wingate's head.
"I figger only one way. This heah. Slingerland had left Allie alone ... Then she was made away with an' the cabin burned." "Indians?" "Mebbe. But I lean more to the idee of an outfit like thet one what was heah." Neale groaned in his torture.
An' if you leave him alone he'll not bother you, but he's bad in a corner." "He scared away the coyotes." "Youngster, even a silver-tip thet's a grizzly bear will make tracks away from a cougar. I lent my pack of hounds to a pard over near Springer. If I had them we'd put thet cougar up a tree in no time." "Are there many lions cougars here?" "Only a few. Thet's why there's plenty of deer.
So he had got hired at the mill, an' had a likely job, an' was doin' well. An' when Tom heerd about Lucy's trouble, an' thet she had only two days left before goin' to jail, he up an' says: 'I'll get the money, Lucy: don' you worry a bit. 'Oh, Tom! says she, 'hev you got sixty dollars saved already? 'I've got it, Lucy, says he, 'an' I'll go over tomorrow an' pay Doc Squiers.
The lean, gray Holley bent a keen gaze upon Bostil. But Bostil did not notice that; he appeared preoccupied in thought. "Bostil, the dry winter an' spring here ain't any guarantee thet there wasn't a lot of snow up in the mountains." Holley's remark startled Bostil. "No it ain't sure," he replied.
Do ye take these yere turns often? Fer if ye do, I reckon as how I 'd sooner be ridin' alone." Murphy struggled to his feet and gripped the other's arm. "Never hed nuthin' like it afore. But but it was thar all creepy an' green ain't seen thet face in fifteen year." "What face?" "A a fellow I knew once. He he's dead." The other grunted, disdainfully.
"Thet critter is sure a terror, an' I orter know," was all he would say; but the boys could imagine that there was some sort of a story back of it.
He stretched a big shaking hand toward Jorth. "Thet Nez Perce Isbel beat me half to death," he bellowed. Jorth stared hard at the tragic, almost grotesque figure, at the battered face. But speech failed him. It was Daggs who answered Bruce. "Wal, Simm, I'll be damned if you don't look it." "Beat you! What with?" burst out Jorth, explosively.
An' I'll gamble you'll learn it.... Wade, have you changed or grown old thet you let a pup like this yap such talk?" "Well, Cap, he's very amusin' just now, an' I want you-all to enjoy him. Because, if you don't force my hand I'm goin' to tell you some interestin' stuff about this Buster Jack.... Now, will you be quiet an' listen an' answer for your pards?" "Wade, I answer fer no man.
Then he commenced callin' for Dicey, an' the dog, an' the cat, to be did, same ez he done befo'; but, of co'se, they's some liberties thet even a innocent child can't take with the waters o' baptism, an' the rector he got sort o' wo'e-out and disgusted an' 'lowed thet 'less'n we could get the child ready for baptism he'd haf to go home.
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