But he needn't go gettin' birdheaded over it; thar's nothin' hostile meant!' "'Enright explains to him satisfact'ry,' says Boggs.

'An' as you urges, it don't mean nothin'.

Folks on the brink of bein' married that a-way gets so joyfully bewildered it comes mighty near the same as bein' locoed.' "'Well,' says the pinfeather party, who's been stackin' up a dust-cloud where some one's gallopin' along about three miles over on the trail, 'if I'm any dab at a guess that's your infuriated paw pirootin' along over yonder, an' we better get these matrimonial hobbles on without further onreasonable delays.

That old murderer would plug me; an' no more hes'tation than if I'm a coyote! But once I'm moved up into p'sition as his son-in-law, a feelin' of nearness an' kinship mighty likely op'rates to stay his hand.

Blood's thicker than water, an' I'm in a hurry to get reelated to your paw.' "But Enright has his notions of what's proper, an' he su'gests the services be delayed ontil old Glegg gets in.