Tales from the X-bar horse camp : The blue-roan "outlaw" and other stories . AN ARIZONA ETUDE rAS time I was in Fot Worth, drawled Peg Leg c Russel who was industriously working away, withmarlin spike and leather strings, on a new quirt, I seen acircus band there a-ridin hosses an a-playin at the sametime. Makin sure enuff music ? queried one of the boys. They sure was, replied Peg Leg; an whats more,them ole white hosses they was a-ridin never batted an eye,but jist tromped along like a bunch of hearse horses. Id sure love to see em try any such funny businesswith these yere little ole digger
Tales from the X-bar horse camp : The blue-roan "outlaw" and other stories . AN ARIZONA ETUDE rAS time I was in Fot Worth, drawled Peg Leg c Russel who was industriously working away, withmarlin spike and leather strings, on a new quirt, I seen acircus band there a-ridin hosses an a-playin at the sametime. Makin sure enuff music ? queried one of the boys. They sure was, replied Peg Leg; an whats more,them ole white hosses they was a-ridin never batted an eye,but jist tromped along like a bunch of hearse horses. Id sure love to see em try any such funny businesswith these yere little ole diggers were a-ridin, he con-tinued, Lordy, but wouldnt they git up an rag whenthe first toot come off. If yed been wid me in the good old gallopin SixthCavalry, yed sure had a chanst to observe jist such a per-formance, said Pat the cook, who was busy at the messbox with supper preparations. The mess wagon was backed up into the shade of agreat, wide-spreading juniper, and the outfit was waitingfehere a few days for a bunch of fresh saddle horses from thehorse camp. Ten or a d
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