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Here I've been waitin' for years to get a crack at that big four-flusher, an' here you come, a-fannin' along from your little old East an' get ahead of me!" He stifled a cackle of mirth. "An' so you're lookin' for action? Lordy! If you don't call what you done to Dunlavey an' Yuma action this country's goin' to set up an' take notice when you get to goin' in earnest!"
An' I'll keep right on, usin' his brothers an' sisters for targets when I think that I'm needin' practice." "Then you killed the snake?" "Why sure, ma'am. I wasn't figgerin' to let that rattler go a-fannin' right on to hook someone else. That'd be encouragin' his trade." She laughed, evidently pleased over his earnestness. "Oh, I see," she said. "Then you were not angry merely because he bit you?
You have come here to nurse me, but if you want money you can earn a hundred nurses' fees by going to a telegraph office and telegraphin' to " 'Jest then there was a noise in the hall, an' he stopped, an' I picked up a fan an' stood as if I was a-fannin' away a couple of little moths that the lamp had drawed. 'Nobody came in, so I went to the door an' listened.
For a time he watched the speck, his eyes narrowing. Finally he made out the speck to be a man on a pony. "He's a-fannin' it some," he observed, shading his eyes with his hands; "hittin' up the breeze for fair." He meditated long, a critical smile reaching his lips. "It's right warm to-day. Not just the kind of an atmosphere that a man ought to be runnin' his horse reckless in."
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