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قراءة كتاب Santa Fé's Partner Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town
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Santa Fé's Partner Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town
“‘LOOK! LOOK! THERE BY THOSE LITTLE BUSHES!’”
Copyright, 1907, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
All rights reserved.
Published September, 1907.
TO
C. A. J.
CONTENTS
| I. | Palomitas | 1 |
| II. | The Sage-Brush Hen | 15 |
| III. | Hart’s Nephew’s Hold-Up | 44 |
| IV. | Santa Fé Charley’s Kindergarten | 77 |
| V. | Boston’s Lion-Hunt | 127 |
| VI. | Shorty Smith’s Hanging | 163 |
| VII. | The Purification of Palomitas | 208 |
Illustrations
| “‘LOOK! LOOK! THERE BY THOSE LITTLE BUSHES!’” | Frontispiece |
| “HER LEFT HAND WAS LAYING IN HER LAP, AND THE OLD GENT GOT A-HOLD OF IT” | 22 |
| “WROTE OUT A NOTICE THAT WAS TACKED UP ON THE DEEPO DOOR” | 84 |
| “‘ONE OF THE NEW GERMAN KINDERGARTEN APPLIANCES’” | 120 |
| “STARING ’ROUND THE PLACE SAME AS IF HE’D STRUCK A MENAGERIE” | 132 |
| “‘IT’S HOTTER THAN SAHARA!’ SAID THE ENGLISHMAN” | 166 |
| “AND DOWN HART WENT IN A HEAP ON THE FLOOR” | 196 |
| “‘DON’T HANG HIM, SIR!’ SHE GROANED OUT” | 224 |
Santa Fé’s Partner
Santa Fé’s Partner
I’ve been around considerable in the Western Country––mostly some years back––and I’ve seen quite a little, one way and another, of the folks living there: but I can’t really and truly say I’ve often come up with them nature’s noblemen––all the time at it doing stunts in natural nobility––the story-books make out is the chief population of them parts. Like enough the young fellers from the East who write such sorts of books––having plenty of spare time for writing, while they’re giving their feet a rest to get 2 the ache out––do come across ’em, same as they say they do; but I reckon the herd’s a small one––and, for a fact, if you could cross the book brand with the kind you mostly meet on the ranges the breed would be improved.
Cow-punchers and prospectors and such don’t look like and don’t act like what tenderfoots is accustomed to, and so they size ’em up to be different all the way through. They ain’t. They’re just plain human nature, same as the rest of us––only more so, through not being herded close in. About the size of it is, most folks needs barbed wire to keep ’em from straying. In a rough country––where laws and constables ain’t met with frequent––a good-sized slice of the population ’s apt to run wild. With them that’s white, it don’t much matter. The worst you can say against ’em is, they sometimes do a little more shooting than seems really needed; but such doings is apt to have a show of reason at the bottom of ’em, and don’t happen often anyhow––most being satisfied to work off their high spirits some 3