. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands . MALTESE CROSS RANCH-HOUSE. VIEW FROM THE DOOR OF THE MALTESE CROSS RANCH-HOUSE THE BUCKSKIN MARE 17 The three declared they did not have an extrasaddle horse. Roosevelt pleaded. The three Canadians there-upon became suspicious and announced more firmlythan before that they did not have an extra saddlehorse. Roosevelt protested fervidly that he could notpossibly sit still in a buckboard, driving fifty miles. By gosh, he wanted that saddle horse so bad,said Joe a long time after, that we were afraid tolet him have it. Why, we didnt know him fromJobs off ox. We didn
. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands . MALTESE CROSS RANCH-HOUSE. VIEW FROM THE DOOR OF THE MALTESE CROSS RANCH-HOUSE THE BUCKSKIN MARE 17 The three declared they did not have an extrasaddle horse. Roosevelt pleaded. The three Canadians there-upon became suspicious and announced more firmlythan before that they did not have an extra saddlehorse. Roosevelt protested fervidly that he could notpossibly sit still in a buckboard, driving fifty miles. By gosh, he wanted that saddle horse so bad,said Joe a long time after, that we were afraid tolet him have it. Why, we didnt know him fromJobs off ox. We didnt know but what hed rideaway with it. But, say, he wanted that horse soblamed bad, that when he see we werent going tolet him have it, he offered to buy it for cash. That proposal sounded reasonable to three cau-tious frontiersmen, and, before they all turned intotheir bunks that night, Roosevelt had acquired abuckskin mare named Nell, and therewith his firstphysical hold on the Bad Lands. II It rains here when it rains an its hot here when its hot. The
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