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"'Oh, a ten-dollar hoss and a forty-dollar saddle' that's you Blue. You don't amount to nothing nohow, doing jackrabbit stunts like that when I'm not looking! 'Coma ti yi youpy, youpy-a." She watched a cloud shadow sweep like a great bird over a sunny slope and murmured while she watched: "Cloud-boats sailing sunny seas is that original, or have I cribbed it from some honest-to-goodness poet?
The words came gustily from the creek down the slope: "No chaps, no slicker, and a-pourin' down rain, And I swear by the Lord I'll never night-herd again, Coma ti yi youpy, youpy-a, youpy-a, Coma ti yi youpy, youpy-a! "Feet in the stirrups and seat in the saddle, I hung and rattled with them long-horn cattle, Coma ti yi " "Do shut the door, Billy Louise! What you want to stand there like that for?
A yellow square opened in the cabin's side, and a figure stood outlined against the shining background. Ward laughed happily. "Coma ti yi youpy, youpy-a, youpy-a," he sang uproariously. Billy Louise turned her head toward the interior of the cabin and then left the light and merged into the darkness without.
"Foot in the stirrup and hand on the horn, Best damn cowboy ever was born, Coma ti yi youpy, youpy-a, youpy-a, Coma ti yi youpy, youpy-a!" Billy Louise, with her chin still in her palms, smiled and hummed the tune under her breath; that shows how quickly we throw off the burdens of our neighbors. "Wonder what he's doing down here?" she asked herself, and smiled again.
The whistling broke and he began to sing at the top of a clear, strong-lunged voice, that old, old trail song beloved of punchers the West over: "Oh, it's cloudy in the West and a-lookin' like rain, And my damned old slicker's in the wagon again, Coma ti yi youpy, youpy-a, youpy-a, Coma ti yi youpy, youpy-a!" "What did you say, Billy Louise?
"I'll sell my outfit soon as I can, I won't punch cattle for no damn' man, Coma ti yi youpy, youpy-a, youpy-a, Coma ti yi youpy, youpy-a! "I'm goin' back to town to draw my money, I'm going back to town to see my honey, Coma ti yi "
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