A. H. Lewis

“ Don't crowd us none."
"Well, I won't crowd you," retorted Navajo Joe, "I don't have to crowd you. What I says is this: I s'pose I sees fifty men stretched by committees between yere and Oregon an' I never sees a man get roped yet on account of no Chinaman. An' I offers a side bet of a hundred even it ain't law to hang people on account of downin' a Chinaman. ”

“ What for a deal is this, I rises to ask, anyhow?"
"You can gamble this yere is a squar' American game," said Armstrong confidently. "You're entitled to your say when the committee is done. Jest stand your hand now an' we'll deal to you in a minute."
"Well, I jest wants to know if I'm in on this play, that's all," said Navajo Joe.
"Gents," said Rosewood Jim, who had sat silently listening, "I'm with you on this yere hangin'. Any attempt on my part to p'int out those features in the daily life of this camp as makes me tired might seem invidious an' I don't aim to do it none. ”

“ I'm a quiet man myse'f, an' wants to keep Cinnabar a quiet place wherein to pass my declinin' years. For which-all I shorely favors a hangin' of Navajo Joe. He's given us a heap of trouble. I'm like Bill Tutt I don't make no p'int on this yere dead Chinaman; we spares him too easy. But this Joe is allers a ridin' an' a yellin' an' a shootin' up the camp till I'm clean tired out. ”