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"'Whatever does this yere Mexican fam'ly mean, says the Red Dog man, a-surveyin' of 'em plenty scornful, 'a-draggin' of their domestic brawls out yere to offend a sufferin' public for? Whyever don't they stay in their wickeyup an' fight, an' not take to puttin' it all over the American race which ain't in the play none an' don't thirst tharfor?
At the most he ain't further away than the nearest water; arsenic makin' 'em plenty thirsty, as you-all most likely knows. "Old Coyote shows up in Wolfville about once a month, packin' in his pelts an' freightin' over to his wickeyup whatever in the way of grub he reckons he needs. Which, if you was ever to see Coyote once, you would remember him.
"'It's about twenty miles to the next wickeyup, says the soopercilious gent. "'Which I can't make it none to-night, then, says Bill. "'Not on that hoss, says the soopercilious gent, for Bill's pony that a-way is plenty played. "'Mebby, then, says Bill, ` I'd better bunk in yere. "'You can gamble you-all don't sleep yere, says the soopercilious gent; 'none whatever!
"This Wilkins lives in a wickeyup out on the aige of the town, an' a girl, which she's his daughter, about 19 years old, keeps camp for him. No one knows her well. She stays on her reservation mighty close, an' never seems visible much. I notices her in the New York Store once, buyin' some salt hoss, an'she ain't no dream of loveliness neither as to looks.
"We-alls is still talkin' an' readin over our mail in the post- office, when all at once we hears Jack Moore outside. "'What's this yere literatoor as affronts my eyes, pasted onto the outside of Uncle Sam's wickeyup? says Jack, mighty truculent.
No, they don't win on the play; the Saucy Willow's parents is out dinero on the nuptials when all is done. They has to give Bill their wickeyup. "When Bill's outfit's fully ready to deal for blood they picks out some bright afternoon. The Saucy Willow's fam'ly is goin' about lookin' partic'lar harmless an' innocent; but they're coony enough to be in camp that day.
"So they goes over to Wilkins's wickeyup an' calls the young Sue girl out, an' Enright begins tellin' her mighty soft as how her paw is took bad down to the Red Light. But the girl seems to get it as right as if she's scouted for it a month. "'He's dead! she says; an' then cripples down alongside of the door an' begins to sob.
Olson, who's plumb aware tharof, no sooner gets Zekiel started on them buckshot, than knowin' that nacher can be relied on to play her hand out, he sa'nters off to his wickeyup, leavin' Zekiel to his fate. Bill won't be home till Monday, an' Olson knows that before then, onless Zekiel is interrupted, he'll be even for that hawg Bill drops.
"'You can gamble I'm never so pleased to see a gent die in my life! says Dan Boggs. "It's most likely the second day after Billy's been seein' things, an' we've corraled him in a wickeyup out back of the dance hall, when Doc Peets is in the Red Light thoughtfully absorbin' his whiskey.
It's shorely a affectin' sight to see them parish'ners, with tears runnin' down their faces, drivin' up the cattle an' takin' them religious directors of theirs out o' hock. "'We finds the padre out back of his wickeyup, trimmin' up a game- cock that he's matched to fight the next day. The padre is little, fat, round, an' amiable as owls. Nacherally, I has to translate for him an' the law sport.
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