Wolfville

ed himself for one of our many "pow-wows," as he described them. "Looks like you've dealt me that c

r first each time, an' nacherally that bars me. Bill Jenks's wife on that occasion is a spec'men case. That's one of the disapp'intments I onfolds to you. Now t

ioned for a wife that a-way when I'm a colt. But that's a long time ago;

ndfold him an' back him in. Females, of course, ain't so obdurate. No; I s'pose this yere bein' married is a heap habit, same as tobacco an' jig-juice. If a gent takes a han

ack in Tennessee. Her folks lives about 'leven miles from me out on the Pine Knot Pike, an' once in two weeks I saddles up an' sorter sidles over. Thar's jest her old pap

never feels happy a minute where they be. The old lady does her best to make me easy an' free, too. Comes ou

Me an' the girl sets up awhile, an' then I quits her an' turns in. I gets to sleep a-layin' along the aige of t

him. "Son, it's 'way back a long time, but I shudders yet when I reflects on that old man's language. I jumps up when I realizes things, grabs my raiment, an', gettin' my hoss outen the corral, goes p'intin' down the pike more'n a mile 'fore I even stops to dress. The last I s

ame is Jennie- Tucson Jennie. She looks like she's a nice, good girl, too; one of them which it's easy to love, an' in less'n two weeks thar's half the camp gets smitten. "It affects business, it's that bad. Cherokee Hall tells me thar ain't half the money gets changed in at faro as usual, an' the New York

trip too. Missis Rucker is backin' his play, an' Jennie herse'f sorter lets him set 'round in the kitchen an' watch her work; which this yore is license an'

, Baxter?' Enrig

hinks I corrals her, an' then ag'in it looks like

schemed to settle thi

a fever, an' mebby get

easy. Females is like a rabbit in a bush- pile; you has to shake things up a lot to make 'em

eddicated sharp I ever encounters in my life. An' what he don't know

Hall, 'but of course it ain't g

'I stands quite a racket if

to play like Jim's shot? Wouldn't that make he

e why not,'

at last gets to be quite a conspir'cy. It's settl

mittee, which convenes all reg'lar an' deecorous in the Red Light for said purpose. We-alls must line out like we'

uch to do- 'cause we ain't aimin' to disturb her none in her dooties touchin' them flapjacks an' salt hoss-we-alls assembles

a big interest. 'We wants to fix things so Jen can swarm in at him easy. You hear m

oods it's well to have a good deal of shootin', b

k, 'might arouse her s'picions. It would

to the Red Light to try him; a-pendin' of which Dan Boggs sa'nters acr

o. Mighty big credit to both boys this yere is. No shootin' up the scenery an' the

s Jennie, lookin' b

is in the New York

hurt?' s

he's done cashed in his stack. Why! girl, he's dead; ei

ot?' Tucson Jennie says, a

her. 'We fixes the wretch so his murderin' sperit won't be an hour behind Jim's getti

the case, when Tucson Jennie, with a scream as scares up surroundin' things to sech a limit that five ponies hops out of th

ays Jack Moore, who's a heap scand'lized. 'Is

gs, who follers her in, 'an' she's done got 'e

Me an' Jack takes her over to Jim's corpse, an' that's shore to rev

still clingin' to Tutt's neck like the loop of a la

counts the pot an' notes who's shy. It looks like we're cinchin' the hull onto the wrong bronco. Let me ask this fe

he says, lookin' all tearfu

other. Tutt flushes up an' shows pleased both at once. But all th

ight says at last, quiet an' thought

Peets, 'but as the au

is on me. Barkeep, set

lle; but as I reflects on the active part I takes in these yere ceremonies, I won't be responsible fo

m Baxter throws away the wagon cover an' comes over from the

l characteristics of the gentler sex, too. Yere's Baxter, to say nothin' of twenty others, as besieges an' beleaguers this yere femal

then an' rounds up close to Cherokee. 'I could tell you two weeks ago Jennie's in love with Tutt.