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26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did--did you hear how--Miss Tolliver is?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doc says he can't tell a thing yet. She's still mighty sick. But Blister he sent word to you that he'd let you know soon as there is a change."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Much obliged."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How does a fellow look out for badger and prairie-dog holes? Bob asked his companion as they jogged along at a road gait."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean when he's chasin' dogies across a hill on the jump."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He don't, Dud answered ungrammatically but promptly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His bronc 'tends to that. If you try to guide you're sure enough liable to take a fall."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But when the hole's covered with grass?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You gotta take a chance, Dud said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're sure-footed, these cowponies are. A fellow gets to thinkin' they can't fall. Then down he goes. He jumps clear if he can an' lights loose."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And if he can't?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's liable to get stove up. I seen five waddies yesterday in Bear Cat with busted legs or arms. Doc's fixin' 'em up good as new. In a week or two they'll be ridin' again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ridin' for a dogie outfit ain't no sin-cure, as Blister told you while he was splicin' you 'n' Miss Tolliver, Dud went on."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a man-size job. There's ol' Charley Mason now. He's had his ribs stove in, busted an arm, shot hisself by accident, got rheumatism, had his nose bit off by a railroad guy while he was b'iled, an' finally married a female battle-axe, all inside o' two years. He's the hard luck champeen, though, Charley is."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll take 'em with us to 'Leven Mile camp, Dud said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then we'll carry 'em back to the ranch to-morrow. The Slash Lazy D is needin' meat."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hungry! Heap hungry!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here's where we go into the barbecue business an' the Slash ranch loses them elk, he told Bob under cover of replenishing the fire in the stove."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' I can name two lads who'll be lucky if they don't lose their scalps. These birds have been drinkin'."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll knock together a batch of biscuits while you fry the steaks. Brace up, kid. Throw out yore chest. We better play we're drunk too,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These wooden heads are so fond of chestnuts I'm figurin' on springin' on them the old one about why a hen crosses the road. Bet it would go big. If they got the point. But I don't reckon they would unless I had a hen here to show 'em."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The party's mighty nigh over, Dud murmured."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wonder what our guests aim to do now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't we feed 'em anything more?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not unless we finish cookin' the pockmarked gent for 'em. I'm kinda hopin' old Colorow will have sabe enough not to wear his welcome out. It'd make a ten-strike with me if he'd say 'Much obliged' an' hit the trail."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get up on yore hind laigs an' dance. I got these guys going my way. Hop to it!"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You saved my life--when--when that fellow--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say, fellow, I wasn't worryin' none about yore life. I was plumb anxious for a moment about Dud Hollister's. If old Colorow's gang had begun on you they certainly wouldn't 'a' quit without takin' my topknot for a souvenir of an evenin' when a pleasant time was had by all. He yawned a second time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What say? Let's hit the hay. I don't aim for to do no ridin' this mornin'."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's ailin' you now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cut out the weeps, Miss Roberta, snapped Hollister."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What in Mexico 's eatin' you anyhow?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--I've had a horrible night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't I know it? Do you reckon it was a picnic for me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You--laughed an' cut up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some one had to throw a bluff. If they'd guessed we were scared stiff them b'iled Utes sure enough would have massacreed us. You got to learn to keep yore grin workin', fellow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know, but--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quit that, Dud commanded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll be darned if I'll stand for it. You shut off the waterworks or I'll whale you proper."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE BIGGER THE HAT THE SMALLER THE HERD"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' when I laid that red-hot skillet on the nearest area of Rumpty-Tumpty's geography he ce'tainly went up into the roof like he'd been fired out of a rocket. When he lit--gentlemen, when he lit he was the most restless Ute in western Colorado. He milled around the corral considerable. I got a kinda notion he'd sorta soured on the funny-boy business. Anyhow, he didn't cotton to my style o' humor. Different with old Colorow an' the others. They liked to 'a' hollered their fool haids off at the gent I'd put the new Slash Lazy D brand on. Then they did one o' them 'Wow-wow-wow' dances round Rumpty-Tumpty, who was still smokin' like he'd set fire to the cabin."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell us some more, Dud, demanded the cook."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did yore friend Rumpty put hisse'f out by sittin' in a snowbank?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't rightly recollect. Me 'n' Bob here was elected to lead the grand march an' we had to leave Rumpty-Tumpty be his own fire department. But I did notice how tender he lowered himself to the back of his hawse when they lit out in the mawnin'."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How're cases?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're takin' that Ute business too s-serious, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gettin' s-scalped 's no picnic. You're entitled to feel some weak at the knees. I've heard from Dud. He says you stood up fine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He told you--?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N-no particulars. T-trouble with you is you've got too much imagination. From yore story I judge you weakened when the danger was over. You gotta learn to keep up that red haid like I said. When you're scared or all in, stretch yore grin another inch. You don't need to w-worry. You're doin' all right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep yore eye on that Dud Hollister hombre, the justice went on."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's one sure enough go-getter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, agreed Bob."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's there every jump of the road. An' he didn't tell on me either."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can tie to Dud, agreed Blister."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's the point, son. When you g-get that sinkin' feelin' in yore tummy it's notice for you to get up on yore hind laigs an' howl. Be a wolf for a change."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I can't. I seem to--to wilt all up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Son, you know the answer already. T-throw back yore haid an' remember you got dominion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How's--Miss Tolliver?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "G-gettin' well fast. On the porch yesterday. Everybody in town stopped to say how g-glad they was to see her out. Been havin' the time of her life, June has. Mollie's always right good to sick folks, but she c-ce'tainly makes a pet of June."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm glad. She's through with me, o' course, but I hope her friends look out for that Jake Houck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't need to worry about him. He's learnt to keep hands off."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe I'd better send her word I'm glad she come through all right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Maybe you'd better not. What claim you got to be remembered by that li'l' girl? You're outa her life, boy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I gotta go an' get some goods for the ranch, Mr. Haines,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I reckon you'd like to s-slide back easy an' have folks forget, Blister said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Natural enough. But it won't be thataway. You'll have to f-fight like a bulldog to travel back along that trail to a good name. You ain't really begun yet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See you again next time I get to town,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The b-bigger the hat the smaller the herd, son. Do all yore b-braggin' with yore actions."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now--now--now, Mollie reproved gently, stroking the dark crisp hair."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is no way to act, dearie, an' all the ladies so kind to you. You want to thank 'em, don't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but--but--I--I--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I reckon she wants me to tell you for her that she's plumb outa words to let you know how good she thinks you-all are."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're the _best_ folks--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I expect you'll find, dearie, that most folks are good when you get on the right side of them. Now you try on them clothes an' see if they fit. We tried 'em on my Mary. She's about your size. You're comin' down to our house to supper to-night. I want you should get acquainted with the girls."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll be terrible glad to come, ma'am,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then that's settled. They're nice girls, if I do say it myself that am their mother."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fellow, get my bridle, won't you? I left it with my saddle somewheres close to the chuck house. Got to fix it to-night."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, sure,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter? Ain't you feelin' good?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I ain't."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stomach?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heart,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, I never heard there was anything the matter with yore heart. If there is, you hadn't ought to be ridin' these crazy colts you do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothin' the matter with _my_ heart. It's yore's I'm worryin' about."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm wonderin' how long you're aimin' to let that bully puss fellow Walker run over you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What can I do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, there's seve-re-al things you could do. You might work the plug-ugly over. It couldn't hurt his looks none, an' it might improve 'em. That's one suggestion. I've got others where that come from."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's a bad actor. I expect he'd half kill me,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I reckon he would, onless you beat him to it. That's not the point. You got to fight him or admit you're yellow. No two ways about that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't fight. I never did,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then how do you know you can't? If you can't, take yore lickin'. But you be on top of him every minute of the time whilst you're gettin' it. Go to it like a wild cat. Pretty soon something'll drop, an' maybe it won't be you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--can't."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't, eh? Listen, fellow. I promised Blister to make a man outa you if I could. I aim to do it. You lick Bandy good to-night or I'll whale you to-morrow. That ain't all either. Every time you let him run on you I'll beat you up next day soon as I get you alone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You wouldn't do that, Dud?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wouldn't I? Don't you bet I wouldn't. I'm makin' that promise right now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought you were--my friend,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you think it. I'm particular who I call by that name. I ain't a friend of any man without sand in his gizzard. But I done give my word to Old Blister an' I gotta come through. It'll hurt you more'n it will me, anyhow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll quit an' leave this part of the country,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not stoppin' you, but you won't go till I've whopped you once good. Will you take it now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's talk it over reasonable,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never see such a fellow for thinkin' he could chin himself outa trouble. Nothin' doing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You've got no right to interfere in my affairs. It's not yore business,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, don't I know it? If I hadn't promised Blister--But what's the use? I done said I would, an' I got to go through."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll let you off yore promise."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wish you could, but you can't. It was to Blister I give my word. No, sir. You gotta take or give a lickin', looks like. Either me or Bandy, I ain't particular which."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You lay off me, Dud Hollister."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Honest, I hope you'll fix it so's I can. Well, you got till to-morrow to decide. Don't forget. Me or Bandy one. You take yore choice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't fight you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then it's Bandy. Suits me fine. Say, Bob, I ain't so darned sure that fellow'll be there so big when it comes to a show-down. He looks to me tricky rather than game. Take him by surprise. Then crawl his hump sudden. With which few well-chosen words I close. Yores sincerely, Well-wisher, as these guys sign themselves when they write to the papers."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Raise you once,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And another blue, said Hollister easily when it came his turn again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got to treat an ace in the hole with respect."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Once more,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hmp! Claim an ace in the hole, do you? Well, I'll jes' give it one more li'l' kick."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see it, growled Bandy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One pair."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One pair here--aces."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Knew it all the time. Yore play gave it away,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I reckon that's why you kept raisin',"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All I needed was to hook a jack or another pair to beat you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I didn't catch another ace or a small pair."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hell! I was playin' poker before you could navigate, young fellow,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' you're still an optimist about hookin' another pair when you need 'em. Dud was counting his winnings placidly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Six-fifty--seven--seven and two bits. Wish I had yore confidence in the music of the spears workin' out so harmonious."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Music of the Spheres."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come here, fellow, an' yank this boot off for me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm talkin' to you."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No Trespass"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's ailin' you? Git a move on. You act like you'd like to tell me to go take a walk. I'll bet you would, too, if you wasn't such a rabbit heart."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O' course any one that'd let another fellow take his wife from him--an' him not married more'n an hour or two--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Crawl his hump sudden. Go to it like a wild cat."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take him off!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Had enough, Bandy? You licked?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take him off, I tell you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not unless you're whipped. How about it?"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He--he--jumped me--when I wasn't lookin',"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't pull an alibi, Bandy. You had it comin',"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He said she--she-- The sentence broke, but Bob rushed into another."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's got to take it back or I'll kill him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only the first round ended, looks like, Bandy, Dud said genially."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You better be lookin' this time when he comes at you, or he'll sure eat you alive."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not lookin' for no fight,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll bet you ain't--not with a catamount like Miss Roberta here,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What he said about June--I'll not let him get away with it. He's got to tell you-all he was lyin'."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You hear yore boss speak, Bandy, drawled Dud."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How about it? Do we get to see you massacreed again? Or do you stand up an' admit you're a dirty liar for talkin' thataway?"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Since you're runnin' a Sunday School outfit I'll pack my roll an' move on to-morrow to where there's some he-men, he sneered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never met this girl, so I don't know a thing about her. All I did was to make a general remark about women. Which same I know to be true. But since you're a bunch of sky pilots at the Slash Lazy D, I'll withdraw anything that hurts yore tender feelin's."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you takin' back what you said--about--about her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm takin' it back. Didn't you hear me say I don' know a thing about her? I know Houck, though. So I judged--"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The incident is now clo-o-sed if Miss Roberta is satisfied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't call me that,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't call you what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What you just called me."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boy, I'll never call you Miss--what I called you--long as I live exceptin' when I'm meanin' to compliment you special. Dud slapped him hard between the shoulder blades."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're a young cyclone, but you can't get a chance to muss Dud Hollister up to-night. You work too rapid. Doggone my hide, if I ever did see a faster or a better piece o' work. How about it, Tom?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're some scrapper when you get started. Bandy looks like he's been through a railroad wreck,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell you he jumped me when I wasn't lookin', he growled sulkily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fine business. You-all stood by an' watched him do it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "After you'd deviled him for a week, amended Big Bill."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mebbe in that outfit of he-men you're expectin' to hit the trail for to-morrow they'll wrop you up in cotton an' not let a hundred-an'-thirty-pound giant jump you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ain't askin' it of 'em, Bandy retorted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can look out for myself an' then some. As for this sprout who thinks he's so gosh-mighty, I'll jus' say one thing. Some o' these days I'll settle with him proper."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have to camp, looks like,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll have a mighty tough night without grub and blankets, Dud said doubtfully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's gettin' colder every minute."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's a sheltered draw below here. We'll get a good fire going anyhow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's our supper an' our beds,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Might be a heap worse, Dud said while he was smoking afterward before the glowing pine knots."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm plenty warm in front even if I'm about twenty below up an' down my spine."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have to roll to the fire an' thaw out,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Reminds me of the time Blister went snow blind, Harshaw said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Up around Badger Bend it was. He got lost an' wandered around for a coupla days blind as a bat. Finally old Clint Frazer's wife seen him wallowin' in the drifts an' the old man brought him in. They was outa grub an' had to hoof it to town. Clint yoked his bull team an' had it break trail. He an' the wife followed. But Blister he couldn't see, so he had to hang on to one o' the bulls by the tail. The boys joshed him about that quite a while. He ce'tainly was a sight rollin' down Main Street anchored to that critter's tail."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll bet Blister was glad to put his foot on the rail at Dolan's, Dud murmured."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd be kinda glad to do that same my own se'f right now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blister went to bed and stayed there for a spell. He was a sick man. Harshaw's eye caught sight of some black specks on a distant hillside."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cattle. We'll come back after we've onloaded at the cabin."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Think I'll put you at the reins, Dud, the cattleman said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Head the horses upstream a little and keep 'em going."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' I took a bath only yesterday,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We got neighbors,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Guess I'll drift over after supper, Harshaw said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe they can give me the latest news about high water down the river."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I drifted over to their camp. An old friend, one of 'em. Gent by the name of Bandy Walker. He's found that outfit of he-men he was lookin' for."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One's a stranger. The other's another old friend of some o' the boys. Jake Houck he calls hisself."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll leave 'em alone, Harshaw decided."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If any of them drop over we'll be civil. No trouble, boys, you understand."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Want I should come over, or can you handle 'em?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Better stay there till I see if I can start 'em back,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stay there while I get the boss."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come out far as you can and catch this rope when I throw it,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Comin' to all right. Didn't I tell you this bird couldn't drown?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You got me out,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure did, Bob. You're some drookit, but I reckon we can dry you like we did the grub,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who got me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blame the boss."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We all took a hand, boy, Harshaw explained."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was quite some job. You were headed for Utah right swift. The boys rode in and claimed ownership. How you feelin'?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fine,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold on. What's yore rush? Harshaw interrupted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're right dizzy, I expect. A fellow can't swallow the Blanco and feel like kickin' a hole in the sky right away. Take yore time, boy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Powder River got away from me--in the water."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not blamin' you for that,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was it drowned?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I reckon we'll find that out later. Lucky you wasn't. That's a heap more important."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come an' get it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Horse got outa the river about a mile below the island. I scouted around some for it, but couldn't trail in the dark."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, Buck. To-morrow Dud and Bob can ride back and get the bronc. We'll loaf along the trail and make a short day of it."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I reckon by noon we can say 'Hello!' to yore bronc, Dud prophesied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No need to trail it. All we got to do is follow the river."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I wonder who we've had with us this glad mawnin'."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Powder River ain't so lonesome now. Met up with friends, looks like. Takin' a li'l' journey north."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mean--?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do _you_ read from this sign we've cut?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Powder River met some one on horseback. The man got off. Here's his tracks."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fellow, use yore haid, admonished his friend."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Likewise yore eyes. You wouldn't say this track was made by the same man as this one, would you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. It's bigger."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' here's another, all wore off at the heel. We got three men anyhow. Which means also three horses. Point of fact there are four mounts, one to carry the pack."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How do you know there are four?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They had four when they camped close to us night 'fore last."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You think this is Houck's outfit?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That'd be my guess."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An' that they've taken Powder River with them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm doing better than guessin' about that. One of the party saw a bronc with an empty saddle an' tried to rope it. First time he missed, but he made good when he tried again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I had yore imagination, Dud--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Straight goods. See here where the loop of the rope dragged along the top of the mud after the fellow missed his throw."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But that don't prove he got Powder River next time he threw,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's where that's proved. Dud showed him the impressions of two hoofs dug deep into the ground."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Powder River bucked after he was roped an' tried to break away. The other horse, like any good cowpony does, leaned back on the rope an' dug a toe-hold."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's Houck going?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Brown's Park likely, from the way they're headed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What'll we do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, drap in on them to-night kinda casual an' say 'Much obliged for roundin' up our stray bronc for us.'"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe we'd better ride back an' tell the boss first,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Maybe we'd better not, Hollister dissented."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By that time they'd be so far ahead we'd never catch 'em. No, sir. We'll leave a note here for the boss. Tack it to this cottonwood. If we don't show up in a reasonable time he'll trail back an' find out what for not."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That'd do us a lot of good if Houck had dry-gulched us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're the lad with the imagination. Far as Houck goes, an' Bandy Walker, too, for that matter, I'll make you a present of the pair of 'em as two sure-enough bad eggs. But they've got to play the hands dealt 'em without knowin' what we're holdin'."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They've prob'ly got rifles, an' we haven't."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a cinch they've got rifles. But they won't dare use 'em. How do they know we're playin' this alone? First off, I'll mention that I sent Buck back to tell the boss we'd taken the trail after them. That puts it up to them to act reasonable whether they want to or not. Another thing. We surprise 'em. Give the birds no chance to talk it over. Not knowin' what to do, they do nothing. Ain't that good psycho-ology, as Blister says when he calls a busted flush?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Trouble is we're holdin' the busted flush."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure, an' Houck'll figure we wouldn't 'a' trailed him unless we'd fixed the play right beforehand. His horse sense will tell him we wouldn't go that strong unless our cards was all blue. We're sittin' in the golden chair. O' course we'll give the birds a chance to save their faces--make it plain that we're a whole lot obliged to 'em for lookin' after Powder River for us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, Dud. Turn yore wolf loose. I'll ride along an' back the bluff."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I reckon that's the end of the trail, Dud drawled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're real pleased to meet up with you, Mr. Houck. Last time I had the pleasure was a sorta special picnic in yore honor. You was ridin' a rail outa Bear Cat an' being jounced up considerable."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If he thinks of that--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He'll think of it, Dud cut in cheerfully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's gritted his teeth a lot of times over that happenstance, Mr. Houck has. It tastes right bitter in his mouth every time he recollects it. First off, soon as he sees us, he'll figure that his enemies have been delivered into his hand. It'll be up to us to change his mind. If you're all set, Sure-Shot, we'll drift down an' start the peace talk."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All set."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's Powder River with the broncs,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We came to get Powder River, the bronc you rounded up for us, Hollister said evenly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Harshaw sent us ahead. We're sure much obliged to you for yore trouble."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Harshaw sent you, did he?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir. Bob had bad luck in the river an' the horse got away from him. I reckon the pony was lightin' out for home when yore rope stopped the journey."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "So he sent you two fellows, did he? I'll say he's a good picker. I been wantin' to meet you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Same here, Houck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's bitin' you, Bandy? Time enough for that when I give the word."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd 'a' got Dillon if you'd let me be."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't you hear this guy say Harshaw sent them here? Use yore horse sense, man. Houck turned to Hollister."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yore bronc's with the others. The saddle's over by that rock. Take 'em an' hit the trail."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell you what I'll do, he proposed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get down off'n yore horses, both o' you, an' I'll whale the daylight outa the pair of you. Bandy'll stay where he's at an' not mix in."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Last fellow that licked me hauled me down off'n my bronc, Mr. Houck, Dud answered, laughing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir. We got to turn down that invite to a whalin'. The boss gave us our orders straight. No trouble a-tall. I expect if it was our own say-so we might accommodate you. But not the way things are."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No guts, either of you. Ain't two to one good enough?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not good enough right now. Maybe some other time, Mr. Houck,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You want it to be twelve to one, like it was last time, eh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Harshaw will be lookin' for us, so we'll be sayin' good-evenin',"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wow! grunted Dud as he wiped the sweat from his face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sure enough glad to have that job done with. My back aches right between the shoulder blades where a bullet might 'a' hit it."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "the justice sang out squeakily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How's yore good health? I heerd you was d-drowned. Is you is, or is you ain't? Sit down an' rest yore weary bones."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I took a swim, admitted Bob."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The boys fished me out while I was still kickin'."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rivers all high?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not so high as they were. We noticed quite a difference on the way back."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, s-sit down an' tell me all about it. How do you like ridin', Texas man?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Like it fine."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All yore troubles blown away?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Most of 'em. I'm a long way from being a wolf yet, though."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So? B-by the way, there's a friend of yours in town--Jake Houck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did he say he was my friend?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't mention it. Thought maybe you'd like to know he's here. It's not likely he'll trouble you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd be glad to be sure of that. Dud an' I had a little run-in with him last month. He wasn't hardly in a position then to rip loose, seein' as he had my horse an' saddle in his camp an' didn't want Harshaw in his wool. So he cussed us out an' let it go at that. Different now. I'm playin' a lone hand--haven't got the boss back of me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "F-fellow drifted in from Vernal yesterday, the justice piped, easing himself in his chair."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Told a s-story might interest you. Said Jake Houck had some trouble with a y-young Ute buck over a hawss. Houck had been drinkin', I reckon. Anyhow he let the Injun have it in the stomach. Two-three shots outa his six-gun. The Utes claimed it was murder. Jake he didn't wait to adjust no claims, but lit out on the jump."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Won't the Government get him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, well, a Ute's a Ute. Point is that Houck, who always was a t-tough nut, has gone bad since the boys rode him on a rail. He's proud as Lucifer, an' it got under his hide. He's kinda cuttin' loose an' givin' the devil in him free rein. Wouldn't surprise me if he turned into a killer of the worst kind."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You think he's--after me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think he'll d-do to watch."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stayin' long in town?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leavin' to-day for the ranch."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What size gun you carry for rattlesnakes?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mine's a forty-five."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hear anything ab-b-bout the Utes risin'? Any talk of it down the river?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some. The same old stuff. I've been hearin' it for a year."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "About ripe, looks like. This business of Houck ain't gonna help any. There's a big bunch of 'em over there in the hills now. They've been runnin' off stock from outlying ranches."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sho! The Indians are tamed. They'll never go on the warpath again, Blister."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "J-just once more, an' right soon now."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's where you 'n' me have a settlement,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not lookin' for trouble,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You never are, jeered Houck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it's right here waitin' for you, Mr. Rabbit Heart."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mad dog!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What shall I do?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "My gun."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dawg-gone my hide if I ever see anything to b-beat that. He was q-quick as c-chain lightnin', the boy was. Johnny on the spot. Jumped the critter s-slick as a whistle. His fat hand slapped Bob's shoulder."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The boy was sure there with both hands and feet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What about June? demanded Mollie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Seems to me she wasn't more'n a mile away while you men-folks were skedaddlin' for cover."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The boys didn't s-stop to make any farewell speeches, tha's a fact. I traveled some my own self, but I hadn't hardly got started before Houck was outa sight, an' him claimin' he was lookin' for trouble too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not that kind of trouble, grinned Mike the bartender. He could afford to laugh, for since he had been busy inside he had not been one of the vanishing heroes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't blame him a mite either. If it comes to that I'm givin' the right of way to a mad dog every time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hmp! snorted Mollie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What would 'a' happened to little Maggie Wiggins if Dillon here had felt that way?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get me to the doc. I gotta have a bite cauterized."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every silver l-lining has got its cloud, don't you r-reckon? Here's Jake Houck now, all s-set for a massacree. He's a wolf, an' it's his night to howl. Don't care who knows it, by gum. Hands still red from one killin'. A rip-snortin' he-wolf from the bad lands! Along comes Mr. Mad Dog, an' Jake he hunts his hole with his tail hangin'. Kinda takes the tuck outa him. Bear Cat wouldn't hardly stand for him gunnin' you now, Bob. Not after you tacklin' that crazy bull terrier to save the kids. He'll have to postpone that settlement he was promisin' you so big."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do folks always go mad when they're bit by a mad dog, doctor?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not a chance hardly, Dr. Tuckerman reassured."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "First place, the dog probably wasn't mad. Second place, 't wa'n't but a scratch and we got at it right away. No, sir. You don't need to worry a-tall."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not through with you. Don't you think it! Jus' because you had a lucky fluke escape--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tacklin' a crazy wild beast whilst you an' me were holin' up,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You in this, Mr. Meddler? If you're not declarin' yoreself in, I'd advise you to keep out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the use of nursin' a grudge against the boy, Houck? He never did you any harm. S-shake hands an' call it off."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You manage yore business if you've got any. I'll run mine, retorted Houck. To Bob he said meaningly as he turned away,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One o' these days, young fellow."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dixie and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My Old Kentucky Home as she moved about her work. She hummed the chorus of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Juanita. From that she drifted to the old spiritual"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Swing low, sweet chariot, Comin' fo' to carry me home."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll wait on him if you don't want to."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I don't want him to think I'm afraid of him. I'm not, either. I'll wait on him."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can tell that squirt Dillon I ain't through with him yet, not by a jugful,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you have anything to tell Bob Dillon, say it to _him_,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' I ain't through with you, I'd have you know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I'm through with you, Jake Houck,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't think it. Don't you think it for a minute, he snarled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm gonna--"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down, Jake Houck, she ordered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Or get out. I don't care which. But don't you think I'll set by an' let you pester that girl. If you had a lick o' sense you'd know it ain't safe."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Am I pesterin' her? he demanded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't I talk to a girl I knew when she was a baby? Have I got to get an O.K. from you before I say 'Good-mawnin' to her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Her father left June in my charge. I'm intendin' to see you let her alone. Get that straight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "INJUNS"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fellow thinkin' of startin' a drug-store. Jim Weaver is the happy dad of twins. Mad dog shot on Main Street. New stage-line for Marvine planned. Mr. Jake Houck is enjoyin' a pleasant visit to our little city. I reckon that's about all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Meet up with Mr. Houck?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have any talk?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He had some, but he hadn't hardly got to goin' good when the mad dog sashayed up the street. Mr. Houck he adjourned the meetin' immediate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "More important business, I reckon,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He didn't mention it, but all those present were in a kinda hurry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So's some one else."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Utes have broke out! Killed a trapper on Squaw Creek! Burned two nesters' houses!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rumor?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir. I talked with a fellow that seen the body. Met two families that had lit out from Squaw Creek. They're sure enough on the warpath."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Must 'a' been right about here Thornburg was shot, explained Dud."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Charley Mason was one o' the soldiers an' he told me all about it. Captain Jack was in charge of this bunch of Utes. Seems he had signal fires arranged with those at the agency an' they began their attacks at the same time. Charley claimed they didn't know there was Injuns within twenty miles when the bullets began to sing. Says he ran five miles before he took a breath."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Makes a fellow feel kinda squeamish, Dud said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's move, Bob."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "W-whad I tell you, Texas man? he asked of Bob."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Show-down at last, like I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here come the Injuns!"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gid ap! Gid ap!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yore bronc is some balky, ain't it, Jud? Hollister asked. He had already discovered that the panic had been caused by a false cry of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wolf"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "S-some one hitched it to a post,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ride him, puncher, urged Bob."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stick to yore saddle if he does buck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was aimin' to go get help,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where was you going for it--to Denver?"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jake Houck,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who's boss of this outfit?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Harshaw. You'll find him over there with the cavvy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lookin' for men to fight the Utes?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you mean business an' ain't bully-pussin' I'll take a hand,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We mean business, Houck. Glad to have you join us. But get this straight. I'll not have you startin' trouble in camp. If you've got a private quarrel against any of the boys it will have to wait."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ain't aimin' to start anything, growled Houck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not till this job's finished."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good enough. Hear or see anything of the Utes as you came?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Which way you come?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Meet Mr. Houck, boys, any of you that ain't already met him, said Harshaw by way of introduction."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's going to trail along with us for a while."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wish that b-bird hadn't come. He's here because he wants to drive the Utes outa the country before they get him. The way I heard it he had no business to kill that b-buck. Throwed down on him an' killed him onexpected. I didn't c-come to pull Jake Houck's chestnuts outa the fire for him. Not none. He ain't lookin' for to round up the Injuns and herd 'em back to the reservation. He's allowin' to kill as many as he can."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did anybody see him shoot the Ute?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seems not. They was back of a stable. When folks got there the Ute was down, but still alive. He claimed he never made a move to draw. Houck's story was that he shot in self-defense. Looked fishy. The Injun's gun wasn't in s-sight anywheres."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Houck's a bad actor,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. Blister came back to the order of the day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, boys. Shifts of three hours each, then. T-turn an' turn about. You two take this knoll here. If you see anything movin' that looks suspicious, blaze away. We'll c-come a-runnin'."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fine business! Why don't a fellow ever know when he's well off? Me, I might be hittin' the hay at Bear Cat or Meeker instead of rollin' out to watch for Utes that ain't within thirty or forty miles of here likely. Fellow, next war I stay at home."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I musta overslept,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some. Fact is, I hadn't the heart to waken you when you was poundin' yore ear so peaceful an' tuneful."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You stood my turn, too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, well. It was only three hours. That's no way to divide the night anyhow."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How far?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure, he answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're humpin' along right lively. Be there in time, I expect. Too bad if we have to chase 'em again all over the map."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's make sure where Mr. Ute is before we ride in, boys. He might be up on the bluffs layin' for us. Dud, you an' Tom an' Big Bill go take a look-see an' make sure. We'll come a-runnin' if we hear yore guns pop."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Too late, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They done slipped away from us. We took shelter from the hail under a cutbank where the cañon widens. They musta slipped by us then. We found their tracks in the wet ground. They're headin' west again, looks like."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've got a warm trail, Harshaw said to Blister Haines."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We better go right after 'em."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hot foot,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Major Sheahan's followin' them now. He said for you to come right along."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "DON'T YOU LIKE ME ANY MORE?"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anybody ever tell you about the fight Bob had with Bandy Walker?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did they have a fight?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I dunno as you could rightly call it a fight, Dud drawled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bob he hammered Bandy, tromped on him, chewed him up, an' spit him out. He was plumb active for about five minutes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What was the trouble?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bandy's one o' these mean bullies. He figured he could run on Bob. The boy took it meek an' humble for a week or so before he settled with Bandy generous an' handsome. The bow-legged guy might have got away with it if he hadn't made a mistake."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A mistake?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He had a few remarks to make about a young lady Bob knew."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lemme out, doggone it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What d'you think you're doing, fellow?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Drinks are on me, son, he gasped at last."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I 'most fed you to my hawss."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mebbe you think because I ain't as big as a house you can sit there an' laugh at me. I'll have you know you can't,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fellow, I'm not laughin' at you. Napoleon was a runt, I've heard tell. But it was comical, you stickin' yore head up through the hay thataway. I'll stand pat on that, an' I ain't a-going to fight about it either."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you say drinks was on you, Jumbo?"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lady wants to see you, Bob. I'll take yore place here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What lady?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Listen to the fellow, derided Hollister."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How many ladies has he got on the string, do you reckon? The fair-haired cowpuncher grinned."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You meander round to the back of the hotel an' I expect you'll meet up with the lady. Mollie Larson she--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Mrs. Larson."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, yes. Mollie runs the hotel, don't she? Was you lookin' for some other lady to send for you?"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--wanted to see you before you left,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought--maybe-- June stopped, hesitated, and came out impetuously with what was in her mind."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aren't we _ever_ going to be friends again, Bob?"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you like me any more? she asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have I done something to make you mad?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, you haven't. There was a rough edge to the words, put there by suppressed emotion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know better 'n that. I keep away from you because--because I acted like a yellow dog."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When you fought Bandy Walker to keep clean my good name?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Or when you fought the mad dog in the street with yore bare hands?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know when, June, he answered bitterly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I let Jake Houck walk off with you to save my worthless hide."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've forgotten that, Bob, she said gently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So much has happened since. That was foolishness anyhow, what--what we did in Blister's office. But I hate to give up the boy on Piceance Creek who was kinda like a brother to me. Do I have to lose him?"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then we'll be friends again, won't we?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ump-ha! he grunted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I'd just as lief. He recognized this as cavalier and added:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean it's awful good of you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When you come back you won't forget to ask for me if I'm not where you see me. I'll want to hear all about what you do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, he promised; and in a burst of gratitude cried:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're a dandy girl, June. If you treated me like I deserved you'd never speak to me again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's silly. I never did feel thataway. Lots of times I've wanted to tell you that--that it needn't make any difference. But I couldn't, 'count of--what we did in Blister's office. A girl has to be awful careful, you know. If we hadn't done that foolish thing--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A judge'll fix you up with papers settin' you free, June, he told her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll do anything to help that you want."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, when you come back,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I got to go, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-bye."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-bye."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got to hit the trail,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll get you into the willows if I can, he called in a sibilant whisper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You bad hurt?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My laig's busted--two places. Plugged in the side too."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better drag me, I reckon. Go as easy as you can on that busted laig."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not far now,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he agreed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not far."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Think maybe I could carry you, Bob suggested."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get you on my shoulder."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Might try, the wounded man assented."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Laig hurts like sixty."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got me as I came over the bluff, the Brown's Park man explained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was lucky at that. The Utes made a good gather that time. Outa four of us they collected two an' put me out of business. Howcome they not to get you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shot my horse, explained Bob."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ducked into the willows."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hotter'n hell with the lid on, he grumbled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wisht I had some water. He drew out a flask that still had two fingers of whiskey in it, but he had resolution enough not to drink. This would not help him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Reckon I better not take it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bathe yore head, he advised."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It'll cool it fine."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got to leave you a while, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Back soon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Torturin' me. Tha's what you're doin', you damned redskin,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Going to get water,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tha's a lie. You got water there--in that bottle. Think I don't know yore Apache ways?"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "KEEP A-COMIN', RED HAID"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fine business, he told them bitterly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Every last one of you acted like he was a tenderfoot. Ain't you ever seen a Ute before? Tryin' to collect him so anxious, an' him only bait to lead you on. I reckon we better go home an' let Major Sheahan's boys do this job. I'm plumb disgusted with you."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That fellow Houck he started it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Were you drug into it? Did he rope you off yore horse an' take you along with him? demanded Harshaw sarcastically."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I hope you got yore lesson. How many did we lose?"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indians making for a gulch at the end of the willows, sir. Others swarming up into the bushes at the edge of the mesa."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gulch leads to that ridge over there. It's the highest point around here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then we'd better take the ridge, Harshaw suggested to Sheahan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right quick, too."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We gotta make a run for it, Dud, his companion said hurriedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To the willows over there."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some lucky getaway,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thought I was a goner sure when they plugged my bronc,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anyhow, that guy's got a souvenir to remember me by. Compliments of Tom Reeves,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've got to get back to the boys somehow. I reckon they're havin' quite a party on the ridge,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My notion is we'd better stick around here for a while, Reeves demurred."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I kinda hate to hoof it acrost the flat an' be a target the whole darned way."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're likely gettin' the fellow that wasn't killed when he went over the bluff, Dud suggested."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There ain't a thing we can do to help him either."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's it, I reckon. They're collectin' him now. Wonder which of the boys it is."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never expected to see you lads again alive an' kickin' after you an' the Utes started that footrace. I'll bet neither one of you throwed down on yoreself when you was headin' for the willows. Gee, I'm plumb glad to see you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're right glad to be here, Buck, acknowledged Dud."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's new?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We got these birds goin', looks like. In about an hour now we're allowin' to hop down into the gulch real sudden an' give 'em merry hell."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thought they'd bumped you off, boy. Heap much glad to see you. What do you know?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I reckon nothing that you don't. There was firin' down by the river. Looks like they found one o' the boys who went over the bluff."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' there's a bunch of 'em strung out among the bushes close to the edge of the mesa. Fifteen or twenty, would you think?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Must be that many, the way their bullets dropped round Tom an' me just now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tom much hurt?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Flesh wound only--in the laig."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The bulk of 'em are down in this gulch back of the ridge. We met 'em on the summit and drove 'em back. I judge they've had a-plenty. We'll rout 'em out soon now."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look!"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fire where you see the smoke, boys,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's down!"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By Godfrey, he'll make it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's Bob Dillon! he shouted. Then, to the runner, with all his voice,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep a-comin', Red Haid!"
}
]
|
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