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Updated: June 16, 2025
Up jumps Tom and picks up the Injun's gun; and bang goes the other Shawnee at him, and jumps to a tree. 'A bird in the hand, said Tom, 'is worth two in a bush; and with that he blows out the first feller's brains, just as he is gitting up, and runs into the fort, hard chased by the other.
And me payin' fer your schoolin' and never gitting so much as a thankye fer it, and scrimpin' and savin' to make a lady out of yuh. And here you come in a tantrum, callin' me a thief right in my face! You knowed all along who worked them brands. If yuh don't, I kin mighty quick tell ye "
One was that the first two men who had attacked him were the gamblers he had driven from the Legal Tender earlier in the evening. The next was that Buck Rutherford was sending the professional tinhorns about their business. "Git!" ordered the big rancher. "And keep gitting till you've crossed the border. Don't look back any. Jest burn the wind. Adios."
A watch was consulted and they learned to their chagrin that it was half-past four. "I vos gitting hungry," came from Hans. "Don't say a word!" cried Tom. "I could eat a doughnut a month old." "Don't speak about it," put in Dick dryly. "It will only make you feel more hungry." Darkness was coming on rapidly, and all of the boys were beginning to despair when suddenly Dick gave a shout of joy.
"Whut is up?" questioned the leading savage, hoarsely. "Is he a-doin' this little job all by hisself?" "Dunno," answered the fellow next him, flipping his quirt uneasily; "but I reckon as how it's her as squealed, an' we 'd better be gitting in ter hev our share o' the fun." The "chief," with an oath of disgust, dashed forward, and his band surged after.
"Come, kitty-kitty-kitty!" he coaxed. "Doggone your onery soul, I'm gitting tired of this kinda performance! You can tromp on me just so fur and no further, now I'm a-tellin' yuh. That there tail of yourn needs a fresh rag tied to it, and some salve. But I ain't the burrowin' kind of animal, and I ain't comin' in under there after yuh. Come, kitty-kitty-kitty!
He watched Jakie moving in desultory fashion about the tent but most of the time Jakie stayed inside. "I betche the boys ain't gitting enough old stand-by-yuh chuck," he decided at length. "Floatin' island and stuffed olives for them that likes stuffed olives and salad and all that junk tastes good but I betche the boys need a good feed uh beans!"
But after he had been roughly tossed into his saddle by the Navahos, Slade brought a drink of water from the arsenic spring and offered it with mock hospitality. "It's a dry ride," he urged. "Take a good swaller, son. It'll keep you from gitting thirsty." Lennon looked at him steady-eyed. "May I ask what you expect to gain by this, Slade?" "Gain? me?" The trader stared back no less unwaveringly.
Turning, she hurried on toward home, and the curious one, giving the horse a smart clip drove off muttering, "Gitting uppish 'fore she gits ter Boston. Do'no what she'll be when she's stayed there a spell." At school, her mates were glad that Randy was to have so delightful a winter, and many and varied were the comments and speculations regarding it.
"More'n that, they're already here," cried a voice; "for it's them, I 'spect, as has attacked Hoy's Station, of which we've just got news, and are gitting ready to march at daylight and attack them in turn. Arm, boys, arm! Don't let us dally here, and be lagging when the time comes to march and fight!"
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