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Updated: June 14, 2025
"'The party who shoves Caribou's dinero off the bar, tells him he can't pay, an' explains the play, an' exhorts him to drink free an' frequent an' keep his chips in his war-bags. ""As I tells you," says this party to Caribou, "my friend Jack Rainey has treed the camp, an' no money goes yere but his till his further commands is known.
"'It's merely payin' for that outrage I attempts on your feelin's when you rebookes me so handsome, says Peets, as he turns aside Coyote's dinero an' tells him to replace the same in his war-bags. "However does Coyote get wrastled by that badger? It's another yarn, but at least she's brief an' so I'll let you have it. Badgers, you saveys, is sour, sullen, an' lonesome.
They ministered to the curiosity of people whose world lay within the camping circle of their small tribe, and they were as truthful as a fear of God could make them, except the dreams, and they too were real to the Indian mind. The men now began to paint themselves and to take their paraphernalia from their war-bags and put it on.
It's money as is the object of the murder, for Burke's war-bags don't disclose not a single centouse when the committee goes through 'em prior to the obsequies. "It's two days the camp is talkin' over who does this crime, when Texas Thompson begins to shed a beam of light. This last was onlooked for, an' tharfore all the more interestin'.
"'But what informs me plain that he explores my war-bags for stuff, before ever he concloods to look after my health, is this: Later, when we gets acquainted an' I onfurls my finances onto him, he seems disapp'inted an' hurt.
The flickering yellows sang to him: "The fire does not sit still, The fire does not sit still Come, brother, take up the pony-whip, Come, brother, take up the pony-whip," and much more that was soothing to his mood. After a time he sprang to his feet and drove the woman out of the lodge. Untying his war-bags he produced a white buffalo-robe and arranged it to sit on.
This plan was received by the boys with acclamation, and they immediately set to making preparations. It was a considerable distance to the town, and they planned to make an early start, before the intense heat of the day set in. They accordingly packed their "war-bags" that same evening, and before retiring had made every preparation for the morrow's trip.
Mighty good squaw once; but heap dead now. "Then Hardrobe an' Bloojacket rides over an' fixes a little flag they've got in their war-bags to a pole which sticks up'ards outen this tomb, flyin' the ensign as Injuns allers does, upside down. "It's six months later, mebby an' it's now the hard luck begins when I hears how Hardrobe weds a dance-hall girl over to Caldwell.
"'I shore couldn't tell, says Dave Tutt, as he sets watchin' the dumb man's play, 'whether he's callin' us names or askin' for whiskey. "'Which if we'd thought to bring some stationery, says Texas, after we-all goes through our war-bags in vain, 'we might open some successful negotiations with this person.
The boys themselves, falling into the spirit of this, hunted through their war-bags for such finery as they could compass, and decked themselves out in turn with new moccasins, new gloves, and new kerchiefs for their necks. Moise looked on them all with the utmost approbation. "It's the best for return like some braves hommes," said he. "Well, en avant!"
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