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Updated: July 13, 2025
She's a female, an' onresponsible, for one thing; an' then, ag'in Dave's a heap onlikely to stand any condemnations of his wife. "'She's as good a woman as ever wears a moccasin, says Dave, while he's recoverin' of his sperits at the Red Light bar. "An' we-alls allows she shorely is; an' then everybody looks pensive an' sincere that a-way, so's not to harrow Dave none an' make his burdens more.
Of course, we-alls onderstands it's 'cause 'Doby ain't puttin' up with no carpin' criticism of his old pard; which the same is nacheral enough. "Don't you-all ever notice, son, how once you takes to fightin' for a party an' indorsin' of his plays, it gets to be a habit, same, mebby, as fire-water?
Mebby it's the third mornin' along of sun-up when they strings out on the trail, an' we-alls thinks no more of 'em. It's gettin' about third-drink time when back rides a gent, sorter fretful like, an' allows he's done shy a boy. "'When do you-all see this yere infant last? says Mace. "'Why, says the gent, 'I shorely has him yesterday, 'cause my old woman done rounds 'em up an' counts.
This deal's liable to turn a split for me in my domestic affairs. An' that's the way we-alls feels. This stage agent is shorely in disrepoot some in Wolfville. If he'd been shakin' up Red Dog's letter-bags, we wouldn't have minded so much.
""You-all don't know me," goes on this Spanish Bill, as I sets up an' blinks at him some foggy an' blurred, "an' I don't know you" which we-alls allows, outen p'liteness, is a dead loss to both. "But my name's Spanish Bill, an' I'm turnin' monte in the Bank Exchange.
To be speecific, I refers to a occasion when we-alls comes powerful close to lynchin' Cherokee Hall. "I don't mind on bosomin' myself about it. It's all a misonderstandin'; the same bein' Cherokee's fault complete.
'I ain't allowin' for my old mother in Missoury to be told as how I dies in no gin-mill, which she shorely 'bominates of 'em. An' I don't die with no boots on, neither. "We-alls packs him back into the street ag'in, an' pulls away at his boots. About the time we gets 'em off he sags back convulsive, an' thar he is as dead as Santa Anna.
"It's two hours later, mebby, when the defunct's daughter the outfit abides over in Chihuahua, which is the Mexican part of Wolfville goes to a show-down with 'Doby an' Billy an wants to know does she get the corpse? "'Shore, says 'Doby, 'which we-alls has no further use for your paw, an' his remainder is free an' welcome to you.
"'As I tells you, thar arrives an hour while I'm in the Tub of Blood when my money's all in my boot, an' thar's still licker to drink. Fact is, I jest meets a gent named Frosty, as good a citizen as ever riffles a deck or pulls a trigger, an' p'liteness demands we-alls puts the nose-paint in play. That's why I has to have money.
"'It ain't much of a store; an' bein' as the rest of us is havin' all we-alls can ride herd on for ourse'fs, no gent makes objections, an' Cimmaron turns himse'f loose in Glidden's store, an' begins to sell things a whole lot.
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