[is your at once dignified and affectionate; and by it you come by Alfred Lewis]@TWC D-Link bookis your at once dignified and affectionate; and by it you come CHAPTER III 6/20
That, an' the egreegious limit Cherokee gives him, is what does the trick. "In Wolfville, we-all allers recalls that sharp-set gent who comes after Cherokee with respect.
In fact he wins our encomiums before he sets in ag'in Cherokee--before ever he gets his second drink at the Red Light bar.
He comes ramblin' over with Old Monte from Tucson one evenin'; that's the first glimpse we has of him.
An' for a hour, mebby, followin' his advent, seein' the gen'ral herd is busy with the mail, he has the Red Light to himse'f. "On this yere o'casion, thar's likewise present in Wolfville--he's been infringin' 'round some three days--a onsettled an' migratory miscreant who's name is Ugly Collins.
He's in a heap of ill repoote in the territories, this Ugly Collins is; an' only he contreebutes the information when he arrives in camp that his visit is to be mighty temp'rary, Enright would have signed up Jack Moore to take his guns an' stampede him a lot. "At the time I'm talkin' of, as thar's no one who's that abandoned as to go writin' letters to Ugly Collins, it befalls he's plenty footloose.
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