As it is, however, an' recurrin' to Tom an' Jerry--the same bein' as I informs you, my two wheel mules--I reckons now I might better set forth as to how they comes to die that time.

It's his obstinacy that downs Jerry; while pore, tender Tom perishes the victim--volunteer at that--of the love he b'ars his contrary mate.
"Them mules, Tom an' Jerry, is obtained by me, orig'nal in Vegas.
They're the wheelers of a eight-mule team; an' I gives Frosty--who's a gambler an' wins 'em at monte of some locoed sport from Chaparita--twelve hundred dollars for the outfit.

Which the same is cheap an' easy at double the _dinero_.
"These mules evident has been part an' passel of the estates of some Mexican, for I finds a cross marked on each harness an' likewise on both waggons.

Mexicans employs this formal'ty to run a bluff on any evil sperit who may come projectin' round.

Your American mule skinner never makes them tokens.