Edwin L. Sabin

Name: Easy come, easy go
Author: Edwin L. Sabin

Easy come, easy go (1924)

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“Easy come, easy go”, published in 1924, is a work by Edwin L. Sabin. It explores elements such as Laramie, hawss and Kansas City.

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Edwin L. Sabin, Easy come, easy go (1924)

“ Laramie gasped. “I got more than that!”
“No, you haven’t. You remember, Laramie, that last time you turned loose, after the calf round-up, you lost all your money, and your saddle, and bridle, and boots, and your four-gallon Texas hat, in a tin-horn poker-game. So I had to stake you to a new outfit. Those things cost. And you’ve been drawing a dollar or two, now and again, since. I can show you in black and white.”
“You needn’t, Tex. Yore word’s good.” But thirty-three dollars and fifty cents, after thirty years of dogging cows from the border to Montana! Shucks! ”

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Edwin L. Sabin, Easy come, easy go (1924)

“ Anybody who thinks I don’t mean it had better make me an offer on my saddle. I’ve fired myself, and I’m done.”
“True to his promise, several days later Laramie found himself at the railway station of the shipping town—a wayside town bared upon the bare plains, drenched with sun and dust—a spasmodic little town livened at intervals, as now, by the beef herds bawling in the pens and shutes, and by the brown, rollicking riders turned loose from the durance of the trail for their brief fling. ”

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Edwin L. Sabin, Easy come, easy go (1924)

“ But “Pretty hawss!” Old Thunder? Who’d ha’ thought it?
“What’s his name?”
“Satan, ma’am.”
“Oh!”
Laramie grimly continued with his routine. Old Thunder submitted, as if contemplating that period of coltship when he indeed might have been “pretty.” His retrospective mien portrayed docility.
“Here’s a genuine cow-pony,” pronounced the elderly man, who was doing the critical. “Hardy, obedient, faithful, the cowboy’s most valued partner. The real cowboy never abuses his horse. Depends on him too much. That’s why he changes mounts whenever he can. ”

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Edwin L. Sabin, Easy come, easy go (1924)

“ Did you decide to stay on for another try?”
“No sir,” said Laramie, holding himself in stern check. “It happens yore stock-tenders don’t travel on passenger cars. They travel caboose, if they’re lucky. Besides, yore cows are old enough to travel alone, and so am I. I’ve quit; I’ve drawed my pay and I’m headin’ for Kansas City, never more to roam.”
Mr. Bunyan smiled with smile exasperating.
“You are, are you? Hunting a job there?”
“I suppose I’ll have to earn my keep, after I’ve been fed up and to a thee-ater. Reckon I’ll enjoy life a little, fust.” ”

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Edwin L. Sabin, Easy come, easy go (1924)

“ He discovered a seat in the chair-car; and having sat right there and slept right there so as to hold it and himself down, he arrived in the morning at Kansas City. He stumbled out upon the platform of this union station that clanged and buzzed, pent with energy. ”

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Edwin L. Sabin, Easy come, easy go (1924)

“ Tex writhed with honest anguish. “The hawss aint hurt. His hair’s scurcely mussed. You can’t set a man afoot for that! A hawss has got to be ridden, else he aint any good in the herd. I wouldn’t waste time with a plumb mean hawss—haven’t much use for a buster, anyhow. And if I caught a man mistreating an animal regardless, I’d be the fust to fire him. Old Thunder aint been mistreated. He’s just nacherly a trifle gay when he’s fust forked. He does it a-purpose; he expects to be tapered off like Laramie tapered him—wants somebody to come right back at him, and then he’s peaceful. ”

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Edwin L. Sabin, Easy come, easy go (1924)

“ Laramie confessed, shamed.
“I knowed it!” Tex vowed disgustedly. “I wont ask you where you’ve been or what you’ve done. No use. Shore, you’ve a job. Your stuff is just as you left it. Oh, heck!” groaned Tex, lapsing into the lingo. “You fellers never l’arn nothin’. Easy come, easy go. You ought to wear that for your brand.”
“Yep,” said Laramie, humble and crimson. “I never did have no sense. I’m a shore brute. What hawss do I ride ag’in, fust?” ”

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Edwin L. Sabin, Easy come, easy go (1924)

“ I go civilized. I know I’ve fell by the way, on several occasions, Tex, but this time will be different. There don’t nary man call me a brute ag’in. I quit the range, and I live white. When I get to Kansas City, I’m goin’ to the swellest cafe in that town, and I order me the best feed on the hull mee-noo, regardless. I been livin’ so long on beef, I moo whenever I see a calf. I reckon I’ll put up at the best ho-tel, and I’ll take in the best thee-ater, and I’ll buy some store clothes. Wow! Hey?” And Laramie fairly licked his chops. ”

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Edwin L. Sabin, Easy come, easy go (1924)

“ That which the diners saw was two damsels fabulously appareled and glowing with innocent curiosity, the young sprig in dude rig of riding-breeches and natty flannel shirt and polished puttees, the elder man caparisoned to similar “sporting” effect and manifesting an important strut, aggravated, perhaps, by the bondage of the flesh. ”

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Edwin L. Sabin, Easy come, easy go (1924)

“ Laramie warned, a glint in his hazel eyes.
“Shore, I see the hawss. There’s nothing wrong with the hawss,” Tex would placate, somewhat bewildered. “And I’ll say the man you’re speaking of is a top hand—there’s not a better man in the outfit. You can’t fire him.”
“Can’t I?” The owner of the 77 repeated. “Look at that horse. In a lather already! See how he’s marked up. The man’s a—hum!—he’s too rough. I’ll not have my horses foundered, or their tempers ruined. Let the man learn to handle horses ”

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Edwin L. Sabin, Easy come, easy go (1924)

“ That hawss is ready to go all the rest the day. He’s only one o’ them kind that’s got to be uncorked. Why, Laramie wouldn’t choose to hurt a hawss or ary other animal. But on the range a man has to ride and to rope and to brand ”

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