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diff --git a/41529-h/41529-h.htm b/41529-h/41529-h.htm index 2ad34db..2cb5a3e 100644 --- a/41529-h/41529-h.htm +++ b/41529-h/41529-h.htm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of Tales from the X-bar Horse Camp, by Will C. Barnes. @@ -143,45 +143,7 @@ table { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -Project Gutenberg's Tales from the X-bar Horse Camp, by Will C. Barnes - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Tales from the X-bar Horse Camp - The Blue-Roan Outlaw and Other Stories - -Author: Will C. Barnes - -Release Date: December 1, 2012 [EBook #41529] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TALES FROM THE X-BAR HORSE CAMP *** - - - - -Produced by Paul Clark, sp1nd and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41529 ***</div> <div class="transnote"> <p>Transcriber's Note:</p> @@ -295,7 +257,7 @@ affectionately dedicated.</i></p> <tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#DUMMY">"Dummy"</a></td> <td class="tdr">123</td></tr> -<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#THE_MUMMY_FROM_THE_GRAND_CANON">The Mummy from the Grand Cañon</a></td> +<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#THE_MUMMY_FROM_THE_GRAND_CANON">The Mummy from the Grand Cañon</a></td> <td class="tdr">140</td></tr> <tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#JUMPING_AT_CONCLUSIONS">Jumping at Conclusions</a></td> @@ -730,7 +692,7 @@ to be avoided, and upon which to wreak vengeance some day, if possible.</p> plains in Texas, being rough and rocky, with none of those great grassy stretches they had been accustomed to back in their old home. There were trees here, too, a thing they had never known on their old range, and -the cows buried themselves deep in the thickets of cedar and piñon. +the cows buried themselves deep in the thickets of cedar and piñon. There they found many tanks or reservoirs of rain water, and unless the water gave out they seldom left their hiding places.</p> @@ -825,7 +787,7 @@ campfires each night plans were laid for the job and stories told of his prowess and ability to escape from his hunters.</p> <p>One fine morning, as the riders were working through a country covered -densely with cedar and piñon trees, with occasional open glades and +densely with cedar and piñon trees, with occasional open glades and grassy valleys, the wagon boss and the man with him heard shouts off to their right. Pulling up their horses they waited to locate the sound, when suddenly from the thicket of trees along the valley there emerged @@ -944,7 +906,7 @@ hill as they were.</p> puncher. Come what might, he meant to hang onto that steer to the bitter end.</p> -<p>Half way down the hill was a lone piñon tree about twenty feet high, and +<p>Half way down the hill was a lone piñon tree about twenty feet high, and true to his nature the steer headed for it. The rider realized his danger and tried to keep from straddling it with his rope, but, just as the roan reached the tree, instead of passing it on the same side with @@ -1023,25 +985,25 @@ stockyards.</p> <p>Four weeks later a party of cattle men, gathering steers in the mountains, ran across the blue outlaw, right on the brink of a deep, -rough cañon. He was seen, with the aid of a glass, across a bend in the -cañon lying under the rim rock in fancied security. Near him were +rough cañon. He was seen, with the aid of a glass, across a bend in the +cañon lying under the rim rock in fancied security. Near him were several other steers, and it was determined to make the attempt to capture the lot.</p> <p>Carefully driving their bunch of gentle steers as close to the place where the outlaw was lying as they could, with the thought that, if he ran up the trail, he would see the steers and possibly go to them and -stop; three men rode into the cañon some distance below and started up +stop; three men rode into the cañon some distance below and started up the trail toward where he was lying.</p> <p>The instant the blue-roan saw the horsemen he jumped to his feet, hesitated a moment, and instead of taking the smooth trail out, dove -down the steep, rocky sides of the cañon where neither horse nor man +down the steep, rocky sides of the cañon where neither horse nor man could follow.</p> <p>Surefooted as he was, he misjudged his agility and strength, and plunged into a mass of loose rock, which gave him no foothold. The walls of the -cañon were frightfully steep and in the loose rock, sliding, slipping, +cañon were frightfully steep and in the loose rock, sliding, slipping, and rolling, he was swiftly hurried towards the edge of a cliff two hundred feet high, over which he dropped to death and destruction. Tons of loose rock followed him to the bottom, making a roar like a thousand @@ -1822,7 +1784,7 @@ the house and tell the news to sister."</p> <h2><a name="JUST_REGULARS" id="JUST_REGULARS">"JUST REGULARS"</a></h2> -<p>In the dark depths of an Arizona cañon, with no light but that which +<p>In the dark depths of an Arizona cañon, with no light but that which came from the stars, a string of shadowy figures slowly worked its way through tangles of thorny mesquite and cat claw, over rocks and past great bunches of cactus which pierced hands and limbs wherever they @@ -1885,7 +1847,7 @@ very likely to need them."</p> behind: fat Corporal Conn whose asthmatic wheezings and puffings had already brought forth many a muttered curse upon his head; Private Hill who couldn't see an inch beyond his nose in the dark and who had fallen -over every bush and rock in the trail since they entered the cañon; and +over every bush and rock in the trail since they entered the cañon; and two other men whose physical condition was such that he doubted their ability to make the climb which he knew was ahead of them.</p> @@ -1902,9 +1864,9 @@ swung from his shoulder. Most of them wore the Apache moccasin which gave forth no sound as they moved along.</p> <p>At last they reached the summit of the mountain<span class="pagenum">[Pg 48]</span> breathless and tired. -Before them was a mighty cañon, the cañon of the Salt River. To their +Before them was a mighty cañon, the cañon of the Salt River. To their left four granite peaks, the "Four Peaks" of the maps, pierced the -skyline like videttes on guard over the cañon.</p> +skyline like videttes on guard over the cañon.</p> <p>From its bed, two thousand feet below, the dull murmur of the river, as it dashed along its rocky way, came softly to the soldiers' ears.</p> @@ -1917,7 +1879,7 @@ and pack train.</p> <p>Their Christmas holidays had been spent in pursuit of several bands of Apaches, and the scouts had reported that a large band of them was -located in a cave on the Salt River cañon.</p> +located in a cave on the Salt River cañon.</p> <p>A pack mule had died in camp that day, and the Indian scouts were allowed to make a great feast upon its remains that they might set out @@ -1946,7 +1908,7 @@ Apaches and hunted them down relentlessly day and night.</p> in the United States. It is located on the western side of the great "Tonto Basin" in central Arizona, and consists of ragged mountain ranges, and isolated peaks, while the whole area is cut and seamed with -deep box cañons impassable for miles.</p> +deep box cañons impassable for miles.</p> <p>About fifty miles from the city of Phœnix, as the crow flies, and near the great Roosevelt irrigation reservoir and dam, four granite @@ -1956,7 +1918,7 @@ peaks pierce the sky.</p> fastnesses of these "Four Peaks" several bands of the hunted, harassed Apaches took refuge.</p> -<p>In its mighty cañons the Indians knew of caves and cliffs where they had +<p>In its mighty cañons the Indians knew of caves and cliffs where they had lived in safety from their old enemies for many years; there they believed no white man could possibly reach them.</p> @@ -1989,7 +1951,7 @@ of which they rested in fancied security.</p> <p>On top of the mountain Major Brown's command, which numbered but fifty men and officers, with two civilian guides, waited while the two scouts -wormed their way into the blackness of the cañon's depths in an attempt +wormed their way into the blackness of the cañon's depths in an attempt to make sure that the Indians did not have any pickets outside the cave to guard against surprise.</p> @@ -2014,12 +1976,12 @@ fortunate ones whom the tall First Sergeant named for the trip.</p> <p>Ross was to endeavor to locate the entrance to the cave in order that the rest of the command might be posted in the most advantageous -positions. His party dropped into the cañon and was quickly swallowed up +positions. His party dropped into the cañon and was quickly swallowed up in its sombre shadows. Down they crept, stumbling over rocks, treading on the "Cholla" cactus balls that covered the ground everywhere, and whose sharp needles will often pierce the heaviest buckskin gloves, moccasins or even leather boots. A misstep meant death far below in the -cañon, while every minute they looked for the crash of the Indians' +cañon, while every minute they looked for the crash of the Indians' rifles.</p> <p>As they felt their way carefully along, they saw the faint gleam of a @@ -2033,7 +1995,7 @@ evident the hostiles felt very secure in their retreat.</p> <p>Scarcely daring to breathe, each picked out a brave for<span class="pagenum">[Pg 52]</span> a target and at a whispered signal, fired. Those of the Indians who were not killed fled into the cave, while the report of the carbines quickly brought the rest -of the command down into the cañon.</p> +of the command down into the cañon.</p> <p>Major Brown placed his men about the cave so as to prevent the escape of any of the Indians, waiting for daylight before attempting further @@ -2045,7 +2007,7 @@ lines, standing for an instant on a great rock, his figure boldly outlined against the sky. His recklessness in his fancied security was his undoing, for one of the crack shots in the regiment, Private John Cahill, took a hasty shot at the form, and it came tumbling down the -steep side of the cañon.</p> +steep side of the cañon.</p> <p>After Major Brown had formed his lines about the cave he called on the Indians to surrender. This they answered with cries of defiance, @@ -2104,7 +2066,7 @@ slender reed arrows peculiar to the Apaches and, with a volley from their rifles, charged the soldiers behind their rocky breastworks.</p> <p>Pandemonium reigned. The death chant was taken up by the squaws in the -cave; the crack of guns in the deep cañon, the shrieks of wounded and +cave; the crack of guns in the deep cañon, the shrieks of wounded and dying squaws and children, the yells of the soldiers as they met this fierce attack of the desperate savages, the flashing of rifle shots in the darkness, all made what an officer who was present (the late Captain @@ -2983,7 +2945,7 @@ with a groan he realized that it would take him too long to do this, for it was only by careful climbing that one could get down the first forty or fifty feet of the wall, and then the rest would be slow traveling at the very best. The race below him was in plain view now, and in a few -rods more they would pass out of his sight in the little side cañon +rods more they would pass out of his sight in the little side cañon through which the road led up to the top of the cliff. To ride back to that place would take too long, also, and the man quickly realized that it was no time to delay.</p> @@ -3688,7 +3650,7 @@ began:</p> an' the old man he come off down here into Arizona an' bought a bunch of steers to take up thar. He done written his wagon-boss to come down with an outfit big enough to handle two thousand head, an' we struck the -Little Colorado River 'bout the mouth of the Cañon Diablo wash, where we +Little Colorado River 'bout the mouth of the Cañon Diablo wash, where we was to receive the herd 'long in June. We didn' have no partickler hap'nin's comin' down, and we got the herd turned over all right, an' built a 'squeeze chute' an' branded 'em all before we started back; so @@ -3731,7 +3693,7 @@ swollen by heavy rains up in the mountains an' we all kinder hated to tackle it. Before he left, the old man told the wagon-boss to ferry the outfit an' horses over in the boat, but to swim the steers.</p> -<p>"You know how Lee's Ferry is; the river comes out of a box cañon above, +<p>"You know how Lee's Ferry is; the river comes out of a box cañon above, an' the sides break away a little, an' then a mile below it goes into the box agin, where the walls is three thousand feet high an' the current runs like a mill-race.</p> @@ -3768,7 +3730,7 @@ all safe enuff at the wharf, but the cook<span class="pagenum">[Pg 109]</span> ' terrapin an' wouldn't ever agin get into no such scrape, not ef he knowed hisself. However, he did get up 'nuff spunk to tackle the ferry, an' went over safely. After we got the wagon acrost, we went back an' -started the cattle down the side cañon what leads into the crossin'.</p> +started the cattle down the side cañon what leads into the crossin'.</p> <p>"Jackson's idee was to git the hosses ahead of the steers an' let 'em follow. You know hosses swim anywheres, an' the cattle will allers @@ -3790,8 +3752,8 @@ cattle, and that's when they gets to millin'. Jackson had swum cattle across the Pecos in Texas, an' the Yellowstone in Montana, an' saveyed 'xactly what to do. But this here Colorado at Lee's Ferry is a bad place to tackle, fer you're bound to get out on the other side afore you get -into the box cañon, or your name's Dennis, 'cause once a feller gits -into the cañon he's got to go on clean<span class="pagenum">[Pg 110]</span> down about a hundred miles afore +into the box cañon, or your name's Dennis, 'cause once a feller gits +into the cañon he's got to go on clean<span class="pagenum">[Pg 110]</span> down about a hundred miles afore he can strike a level place big enuff to crawl out on.</p> <p>"Soon as the cattle got well strung out, Jackson began to undress @@ -3802,7 +3764,7 @@ six-shooter belt around him, an' pulled the saddle off'n his hoss.</p> says, 'No, not 'less I have to; but if they gets to millin' out thar we'll lose the whole herd, an' the only way to break it up is to ride out an' shoot among 'em an' skeer 'em.' He knowed it were risky, for if -anything went wrong he was shore to be carried into the cañon an' +anything went wrong he was shore to be carried into the cañon an' drowned. But Bill Jackson wa'n't the sort of a wagon-boss to stop at anything to save the herd, an' sure 'nuff, 'bout the time the leaders got fairly into the middle of the river, 'long comes a big cottonwood @@ -3840,7 +3802,7 @@ standin' on dry land, an' not a single one missin'.</p> <p>"Meantime the boys in the boat had watched everywhere for pore Jackson's body, but they never got sight of it, though they went 'most down to the -mouth of the box cañon. Thar was lots of big trees an' drift a-runnin', +mouth of the box cañon. Thar was lots of big trees an' drift a-runnin', an' we guessed his body had been caught in the branches of a tree an' carried down with it. Pore old Blue Jay come floating past 'em, an' they tried to catch him, but the current was so swift they couldn't do it. @@ -3850,12 +3812,12 @@ All they wanted was to get Jackson's silver-mounted bridle off'n him, <p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 112]</span></p> <p>"Well, the rest of us crossed in the big ferry-boat an' rounded up the -steers, which was grazin' up the cañon on the other side, an' moved 'em +steers, which was grazin' up the cañon on the other side, an' moved 'em out a couple of miles to camp. Shorty, bein' the oldest hand in the outfit, took charge, an' sent two of us back to the ferry, to try an' see ef Jackson's body could be found, but the feller what runs the ferry said 'tain't no use lookin' fer him, 'cause the swift current would -carry him miles and miles down the cañon without ever lodgin' anywhere. +carry him miles and miles down the cañon without ever lodgin' anywhere. So we went back, an' Shorty gave it up an' decided to push the herd on next day. We was a blue ole crowd that night around the campfire, I tell you. All the boys liked Jackson, an' besides, they was a-thinkin' of his @@ -3870,13 +3832,13 @@ arrivin' safely at the ranch without any more misfortunes."</p> <p>"Wal," said Colly, "that's a singular thing, too. When we gets back to the ranch the old man he was orful cut up about it, an' hated to think -that the body wasn't found. He'd been down in the Grand Cañon the summer +that the body wasn't found. He'd been down in the Grand Cañon the summer afore with a lot of fellers, an' he said he believed he could find it 'bout a hundred miles below the ferry, 'cause thar were a place down -thar in the cañon whar the walls widened out fer some twenty miles, an' +thar in the cañon whar the walls widened out fer some twenty miles, an' thar was quite a valley with grassy meadows an' trees. So he takes one of the boys an' a pack outfit an' goes off down thar. They had to leave -every<span class="pagenum">[Pg 113]</span>thing on top of the cañon an' climb down a-foot an' pack their +every<span class="pagenum">[Pg 113]</span>thing on top of the cañon an' climb down a-foot an' pack their stuff on their backs. The walls was six thousand feet high thar, an' they had a hard time gettin' down. Course, it was jist a scratch, but I'm blest if after four or five days' hunt they didn't find it lodged in @@ -3884,7 +3846,7 @@ a pile of drift along the river. 'Twas easy 'enuff to tell Jackson's body, fer he'd had two fingers of his left hand shot off in a fight once; so they takes it off to a place in the valley whar it was safe from flood, an' buries it as well as they could, an' next year, he went -back an' packed the remains out of the cañon an' took them clean to the +back an' packed the remains out of the cañon an' took them clean to the ranch an' buried 'em jist as if it was his own brother. I tell you, the boys was ready to swear by old man Saunders after that."</p> @@ -3955,13 +3917,13 @@ hills, an' the rangers swore they had to go behind a tree to light their pipes, lest he'd see the smoke an' send in a fire call.</p> <p>"'Shut-eye,' said the old man, meaning the lookout, 'Shut-eye says -there's a big smoke a-comin' out of the cañon below Gold Gulch to the +there's a big smoke a-comin' out of the cañon below Gold Gulch to the left of Greyback Peak, an' I reckon we'd better be a-movin' that way.'</p> <p>"It didn't take us long to saddle up, slap a pack onto a couple of mules, an' hit the trail. 'Twas a good ten-mile over a rough country, an' it was mighty nigh dark afore we gets to where we could see smoke -a-boiling out of the cañon over a ridge ahead of us.</p> +a-boiling out of the cañon over a ridge ahead of us.</p> <p>"We was all old-timers at the work, 'ceptin' a young feller fresh from the Yale Forestry School, what had come out for a sort of post-graduate @@ -4630,8 +4592,8 @@ when he wakes up in the morning."</p> <p>Bob knocked the ashes from his pipe and put it away.</p> -<p>"There's a bunch of piñons and cedars down along the wash," he said, -"sposin' I take the axe an' git a little branch, or the tip of a piñon +<p>"There's a bunch of piñons and cedars down along the wash," he said, +"sposin' I take the axe an' git a little branch, or the tip of a piñon an' we set her up here by his bed? What kin we dig up to put onto it that's fittin' for such a thing?"</p> @@ -4653,7 +4615,7 @@ orange I throwed in with the grub when we was packin'."</p> <p>An hour later the two men stood by the boy's bed, their faces fairly shining with the true Christmas spirit over their efforts to make an acceptable Christmas tree out of such scanty material. On the floor at -his head stood a small piñon tree top held erect by several stones. Both +his head stood a small piñon tree top held erect by several stones. Both men had exhausted their ingenuity to find things with which to decorate it and on its branches hung the oddest lot of plunder that ever old "Santy" left on his rounds.</p> @@ -4704,7 +4666,7 @@ Stanley wiped his eyes rather furtively as he turned toward their bed.</p> <img src="images/i_174.jpg" width="600" height="168" alt="" /> </div> -<h2><a name="THE_MUMMY_FROM_THE_GRAND_CANON" id="THE_MUMMY_FROM_THE_GRAND_CANON">THE MUMMY FROM THE GRAND CAÑON</a></h2> +<h2><a name="THE_MUMMY_FROM_THE_GRAND_CANON" id="THE_MUMMY_FROM_THE_GRAND_CANON">THE MUMMY FROM THE GRAND CAÑON</a></h2> <p>"Bang, bang, bang!" went three shots in the night air. Sounds like some feller's a huntin' a warm place to sleep," said Little Bob Morris, one @@ -4752,7 +4714,7 @@ didn't leave any sign that I can find, and, anyhow (which to him was the most convincing thing of all), what'd any one want for to steal a dead Chinaman, I'd like to know?'</p> -<p>"There was a doctor livin' over on Cataract cañon that fall, a sort of +<p>"There was a doctor livin' over on Cataract cañon that fall, a sort of lunger chap, and when some one suggested that perhaps he had packed the Chink off for dissectin'<span class="pagenum">[Pg 142]</span> purposes (Ah Yen bein' six feet tall and the best specimen of a Chinaman I'd ever seen), the sheriff, just to make a @@ -4805,7 +4767,7 @@ town for some grub and other plunder and goes down to the depot to see the train come through, and me a wishin' to God I was a goin' off in her, no matter which-a-way she was pointed. When number two comes along, who should drop off but old Pickerell, who used to live out here on the -cañon and take tourists out and show 'em the sights. Pick were powerful +cañon and take tourists out and show 'em the sights. Pick were powerful glad to see me and he sed, ses he, 'What be ye a doin' here, Jackson?'</p> <p>"'I'm a doin' of the prodigal son act,' ses I.</p> @@ -4861,7 +4823,7 @@ here.</p> </div> <p>"But the main drawin' card he had was the mummy which he sed he dug up -somewheres out here in the Grand Cañon. He had all sorts of certificates +somewheres out here in the Grand Cañon. He had all sorts of certificates and letters to prove its genuineness, as well as photographs taken when they dug it up in the cave.</p> @@ -4917,7 +4879,7 @@ confidential an' tole me how he turned the trick.</p> worked," continued Jackson, "but, howsomever, the day the Chink died the one-lunged doctor was in town. Pickerell he's been a tellin' him about the mummies they occasionally found out in them cliff dwellers' ruins in -the cañon, and when the Doc meets Pick hangin' about town that afternoon +the cañon, and when the Doc meets Pick hangin' about town that afternoon he suggests carryin' off the Chink's body and makin' a mummy out of it. That hits Pick all right and he didn't let no grass grow under his feet gittin' ready to do it.</p> @@ -4927,7 +4889,7 @@ uptown, finds the door of the joss house open and no one watchin' it. Hurryin' back to his cabin, he saddles up one mule and slaps a packsaddle on the other, an' an hour later drifted out of town with a pack on his mule lookin' for all the world like a long roll of bedding. -By noon the next day he reached his den in the cañon, where he and the +By noon the next day he reached his den in the cañon, where he and the doctor went to work, and between 'em did a mighty good job of embalmin', endin' it all up with a three months' smokin' of the body with green cedar wood.</p> @@ -4935,7 +4897,7 @@ cedar wood.</p> <p>"Pick ses that then come the tickledest part of the hull job, fer whilst he's got a mummy all right, he's got to git it sort of discovered like to make it of any scientific value, an' he studies the matter aplenty. -He knows a bunch of fellers what was a-coming out to the Grand Cañon +He knows a bunch of fellers what was a-coming out to the Grand Cañon from the East to poke about an' try an' discover prehistoric things, and he knows them's the very chaps to help him out. So when they shows up he tells 'em sort of accidental like that he knows where they's a bunch of<span class="pagenum">[Pg 148]</span> @@ -5234,7 +5196,7 @@ inquiringly. I nodded affirmatively.</p> <p>The Jacob's Well was located in the center of a very large level mass of sandstone covering perhaps three or four acres, with a dense thicket of -cedar and piñon trees all about it. It was a fairly round hole about +cedar and piñon trees all about it. It was a fairly round hole about five feet wide and perhaps ten deep, bored down into the sandstone formation either by human agency or some peculiar action of nature. The lay of the rocks all about it was such as<span class="pagenum">[Pg 157]</span> to form a regular watershed, @@ -5410,7 +5372,7 @@ the range called it the "Lazy H" outfit.</p> seventy-five cow-ponies that had seen a hard summer's work, and the job was a snap. Two men rode out every morning and saw that none of the animals strayed too far, bringing them all in for water down the trail -in the cañon, salting them once a week, and keeping a sharp lookout for +in the cañon, salting them once a week, and keeping a sharp lookout for horse thieves, both white and Indian.</p> <p>The camp was a dugout in the side of a hill, part logs, part hill, with @@ -6164,7 +6126,7 @@ of oats waiting for him on the further bank of the river.</p> <p>As the steers on the O. T. ranch had always been handled by placing the horse herd ahead of them when corraling or taking a narrow trail down -some cañon, they followed the horses with little delay.</p> +some cañon, they followed the horses with little delay.</p> <p>On the upper side of the lead cattle rode the Trinidad Kid on his best horse.</p> @@ -6186,7 +6148,7 @@ all the doings when them wedding bells cut loose?"</p> <p>"I reckon so," was the answer, "and what's more, if I gets me onto the yonderly side of this streak of mud, I'm a going to stay there. I've -seen all I want to of this 'mañana land.'"</p> +seen all I want to of this 'mañana land.'"</p> <p>Just at the critical time, when everything seemed to be working out all right, a great wave of water swept down the stream and broke with a @@ -6365,11 +6327,11 @@ will be here tomorrow with body, Please wire instructions.</p> <p>"And Pablo."</p> -<p>"Señor?" And the boy looked inquiringly at the speaker. "You stay right +<p>"Señor?" And the boy looked inquiringly at the speaker. "You stay right here around this meadow. Here's plenty of feed and water for your band till I come back from town. Savvey?"</p> -<p>"Si, Señor."</p> +<p>"Si, Señor."</p> <p>"I won't be gone but three days, Pablo," continued the man, shifting uneasily in his saddle, "an' it's a tough deal to give you, but there's @@ -6381,7 +6343,7 @@ best lambs that this here range has ever seen. There's ten <i>negros</i>, <i>tres campanas</i>, an' <i>cinco chivos</i>; reckon you can keep track of 'em all?"</p> -<p>"Si, Señor," assented the boy, in whose veins flowed the blood of almost +<p>"Si, Señor," assented the boy, in whose veins flowed the blood of almost three centuries of sheepherders, "<i>tres</i> bells-<i>campanas</i>," and three fingers indicated the number of belled ewes in the bunch, "<i>cinco</i> goats," and one outspread hand showed the number of goats with the ewes, @@ -6397,7 +6359,7 @@ it won't do to graze the band that-a-way. Take 'em up toward the top if you go anywhere; but keep your camp here an' stay with it till I come back, savvey?"</p> -<p>"Si, Señor," with a quick nod of the head.</p> +<p>"Si, Señor," with a quick nod of the head.</p> <p>The man dropped off his horse, gave the curly black mop on the boy's head a hasty pat, picked up the lead rope of a pack mule standing near @@ -6478,7 +6440,7 @@ does, it's good-bye trees, for once a fire gets under good headway in these mountains, with conditions just right, all the fire fighters in hell couldn't stop it. So long, old man, I've got to be a-drifting."</p> -<p>As the ranger moved off up the cañon, the sheepman turned and glanced up +<p>As the ranger moved off up the cañon, the sheepman turned and glanced up at the sky toward the spot where he had left Pablo and his charges. There were no signs of smoke in the clear blue above, so he touched the horse with his spurs and resumed his journey, content to leave<span class="pagenum">[Pg 199]</span> the fire @@ -6539,7 +6501,7 @@ him, Pablo, for protection and care. What should he do? He must not leave the camp,<span class="pagenum">[Pg 201]</span> and still, if he kept the sheep there and the fire really came to the meadow, they might all die.</p> -<p>Late that evening the wind changed and blew up the cañon like a gale, +<p>Late that evening the wind changed and blew up the cañon like a gale, carrying with it clouds of smoke and burning brands which started fires far in advance of the main line. But the boy stayed with the sheep, wide awake and watchful, hardly taking time to eat his simple meals of @@ -7042,16 +7004,16 @@ It was the end of the road for the <span class="u">blue roan</span>.<br /> It was the end of the road for the <span class="u">blue-roan</span>.</p> <p> like videttes on guard over the <span class="u">canon</span>.<br /> -like videttes on guard over the <span class="u">cañon</span>.</p> +like videttes on guard over the <span class="u">cañon</span>.</p> <p> deep box <span class="u">canons</span> impassable for miles.<br /> -deep box <span class="u">cañons</span> impassable for miles.</p> +deep box <span class="u">cañons</span> impassable for miles.</p> <p> It brought <span class="u">very</span> man in camp to his feet, for high above<br /> It brought <span class="u">every</span> man in camp to his feet, for high above</p> <p> the Little Colorado River 'bout the mouth of the <span class="u">Canon</span><br /> -the Little Colorado River 'bout the mouth of the <span class="u">Cañon</span></p> +the Little Colorado River 'bout the mouth of the <span class="u">Cañon</span></p> <p> "I'll never miss them <span class="u">spurs,</span> said Bob pointing to an<br /> "I'll never miss them <span class="u">spurs,"</span> said Bob pointing to an</p> @@ -7078,382 +7040,6 @@ of the Stars <span class="u">and'</span> Stripes a-flyin' overhead. 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