Charley and Windy Bill weled us with soda biscuits. We turned our hors out, spread our beds on the floor, filled our pipes, and squatted on our heels. Various dogs of various breeds iigated us. It was very pleasant, and we did not mind the ring around the sun.
"Somebody el ing," announbsp;the Cattleman finally.
"Unbsp;Jim," said Charley, after a glance.
A hawk-fabsp;old man with a long white beard and long white hair rode out from the cottonwoods. He had on a battered broad hat abnormally high of , carried across his saddle a heavy "eight square" rifle, and was followed by a half-dozen lolloping hounds.
The largest and fiercest of the latter, catg sight of our group, launched himlf with lightning rapidity at the biggest of the ranbsp;dogs, promptly nailed that e by the babsp;of the nebsp;shook him violently a score of times, flung him aside, and pounbsp;on the . During the ensuing few moments that hound was the busiest thing in the West. He satisfactorily whipped four dogs, pursued two cats up a tree, upt the Dutbsp;oven and the rest of the soda biscuits, stampeded the hors, and raid a cloud of dust adequate to reprent the smoke of battle. We others were too paralyd to move. Unbsp;Jim sat placidly on his white hor, his thin knees bent to the ox-bow stirrups, smoking.
Charley and Windy Bill weled us with soda biscuits. We turned our hors out, spread our beds on the floor, filled our pipes, and squatted on our heels. Various dogs of various breeds iigated us. It was very pleasant, and we did not mind the ring around the sun.
"Somebody el ing," announbsp;the Cattleman finally.
"Unbsp;Jim," said Charley, after a glance.
A hawk-fabsp;old man with a long white beard and long white hair rode out from the cottonwoods. He had on a battered broad hat abnormally high of , carried across his saddle a heavy "eight square" rifle, and was followed by a half-dozen lolloping hounds.
The largest and fiercest of the latter, catg sight of our group, launched himlf with lightning rapidity at the biggest of the ranbsp;dogs, promptly nailed that e by the babsp;of the nebsp;shook him violently a score of times, flung him aside, and pounbsp;on the . During the ensuing few moments that hound was the busiest thing in the West. He satisfactorily whipped four dogs, pursued two cats up a tree, upt the Dutbsp;oven and the rest of the soda biscuits, stampeded the hors, and raid a cloud of dust adequate to reprent the smoke of battle. We others were too paralyd to move. Unbsp;Jim sat placidly on his white hor, his thin knees bent to the ox-bow stirrups, smoking.
In ten ds the trouble was over, principally bebsp;there was no more trouble to make. The hound returned leisurely, lig from his chops the hair of his victims. Unbsp;Jim shook his head.