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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... picks up one the coyotes overlooks. It shows it's been cut off at the fetlock j'int by a knife. ' This spectre, ' says Enright, passin' the hoof to Peets, 'packs a bowie; an' he likewise butchers his prey. Also, ondoubted, he freights the meat off some'ers to his camp, which is why we don't notice no big bones layin' 'round loose.' Then Enright scans the grass mighty scroopulous; an' shore enough! thar's plenty of pony tracks printed into the soil. 'That don't look so soopernacheral neither, ' says Enright, p'intin' to the hoof-prints. ' Them's shorely made by a flesh an' blood pony, ' says Peets. 'An' from their goin' some deep into the ground, I dedooces that said cayouse is loaded down with what weight of beef an' man it can stagger onder.' That evenin' over their grub Enright an' Peets discusses the business. Thar's a jimcrow Mexican plaza not three miles off in the hills. Both of 'em is aware of this hamlet, an' Peets, partic'lar, is well acquainted with a old Mexican sharp who lives thar--he's a kind o' schoolmaster among 'em--who's mighty cunnin' an' learned. His name is Jose Miguel. ' An' I'm beginnin' to figger, ' says Peets, 'that this ghostly rider is the foxy little Jose Miguel. Which I've frequent talked with him; an' he saveys enough about drugs an' chemicals to paint up with phosphorus an' go surgin' about an' stampedin' cattle over bluffs. It's a mighty good idee from his standp'int. He can argue that the cattle kills themse'fs--sort o' commits sooicide inadvertent--an' if we-all tracks up on him with the beef, he insists on his innocence, an' puts it up that his cuttin in on the play after said cattle done slays themse'fi injures nobody but coyotes.' ' Doc, ' coincides Enright, after roominatin' in silence, .' Doc, t...

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