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Updated: June 16, 2025
As we were saddling up to leave, Miller said to Jack, "Now if you're any good, you'll delude some girl to keep house for you 'twixt now and fall. You notice all your boomer neighbors have wives. That's a hint to you to do likewise." We were on the point of mounting, when the coyote horse began to act up in great shape. Some one said to Edwards, "Loosen your cinches!"
"I got the cinches a little tight. The pony didn't like it. I couldn't get the gait in time for the Number Five. But I knew I could make Number Six." Remounting, he made his way through the crowd back over the course. Kate was still on the hill. "You won, didn't you?" she cried as he rode toward her. "If I hadn't, I guess I'd have had to head straight across the creek for home. Could you see?"
His ineffectual struggles caused him to sink farther to the flanks in the loblolly which the tramping of the cattle had caused, and there horse and steer lay, side by side, like two in a bed. Wheat loosened the cinches of the saddle on either side, and stripping the bridle off, brought up the rear, carrying saddle, bridle, and blankets on his back.
She watched him until, having reached a certain place where a group of cottonwoods shaded the gully, he stopped and dismounted to fuss with his cinches. Mary V could not be sure whether he was merely killing time, or whether he really needed to tighten the saddle; but when another rider appeared suddenly from the eastward, she did know that the first rider showed no symptoms of surprise.
"Tell us just what happened, dear!" she urged gently. "I don't exactly know I can't just understand how it happened," Marion began. "I had an accident in the road. My foot was hurt my ankle was twisted or I thought it was and I was frightened." "An accident?" said Claire. "I was off my pony the cinches were loose and when I tried to mount again I slipped somehow and fell.
"The nigger says he does. He announces that mebby an hour before, this party comes over to the corral, makes a motion or two with his hands, cinches the hull onto the pinto, an' lines out for the northeast on the Silver City trail. He's been plumb outen sight for more'n half an hour. "'Which I likes that! says Texas Thompson.
"Hello, Elfie!" said Laura, unable to conceal how genuinely glad she was to see her friend. "It's a bully day out," said Elfie, looking at herself in the mirror. "I've been shopping all morning long; just blew myself until I'm broke, that's all. My goodness, don't you ever get dressed? Listen talk about cinches! I copped out a gown, all ready made.
By the time all was in readiness to start the sun was up, melting the frost and ice, so that a dazzling, bright mist, full of rainbows, shone under the trees. Dale looked Ranger over, and tried the cinches of Bo's horse. "What's your choice a long ride behind the packs with me or a short cut over the hills with Roy?" he asked. "I choose the lesser of two rides," replied Helen, smiling.
"I never was up to his camp but what it was overrun with birds an' squirrels an' vermin of all kinds, as tame as tame as cows. Too darn tame, Milt says. But I can't figger thet. You girls will never want to leave thet senaca of his." "What's a senaca?" asked Helen, as she shifted her foot to let him tighten the cinches on her saddle. "Thet's Mexican for park, I guess," he replied.
They untied the two horses and led them up to where the saddles lay. Swiftly the blankets went on, swiftly the saddles swung up, swiftly the cinches snapped. Anson lay gazing up at Wilson, comprehending this move. And Wilson stood strangely grim and silent, somehow detached coldly from that self of the past few hours. "Shady, you grab some bread an' I'll pack a bunk of meat," said Moze.
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