Stewart Edward White

“ Already the remuda, driven in from the open plains, scattered about the thousand acres of pasture. Away from conveniences of fence and corral, men would have had to patrol all night. Now, however, every one was gathered about the camp-fire. ”

“ While I was figurin' what next, Dutchy came in. Which I was tur'ble surprised at that, but I said good mornin' and would he rest his poor feet
“You like to make some money?” he asks.
“That depends,” says I. “on how easy it is.”
“It is easy,” says he. “I want you to buy hosses for me.”
“Hosses! Sure!” I yells, jumpin' up. “You bet you! Why, hosses is where I live! What hosses do you want?”
“All hosses,” says he, calm as a faro dealer. ”

“ I hooked up to another saloon kept by a thin Dutchman. A fat Dutchman is stupid, but a thin one is all right.
In ten minutes I had more friends in Cyanide than they is fiddlers in h——. I begun to conclude Cyanide wasn't so lonesome. About four o'clock in comes a little Irishman about four foot high, with more upper lip than a muley cow, and enough red hair to make an artificial aurorer borealis. ”

“ Sometimes he will open up in good shape, and sometimes he will not. It does no good to ask him direct, and he is as shy as an old crow when you try to lead him up to a subject. We must just lie low and trust to Providence. ”

“ The whole passel of them was on that one street of their'n, talkin' sixteen ounces to the pound. In the middle was Dutchy, drunk as a soldier—just plain foolish drunk.
“Good Lord!” thinks I to myself, “he ain't celebratin' gettin' that bunch of buzzards, is he?” ”

“ So I catches me a buyer at Benson and turns over my poor little bunch of cattle and prepared to fly. The last day I hauled up about twenty good buckets of water and threw her up against the cabin. My buyer was settin' his hoss waitin' for me to get aready. He didn't say nothin' until we'd got down about ten mile or so.
“Mr. Hicks,” says he, hesitatin' like, “I find it a good rule in this country not to overlook other folks's plays ”