DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
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"Well," I says, "Hank sent me over to get that<br />
wagon and them hosses of theirn and finish that<br />
job."<br />
"That there wagon," says Jake, "is in my barn,<br />
with Si Emery watching her, and she has got to<br />
stay there till the law lets her loose." I figgered<br />
to myself Jake could use that team and wagon in<br />
his business, and was going to buy her cheap offn<br />
the town, what share of her he didn't figger he owned<br />
already.<br />
"Why, Jake," I says, "I hope they ain't been no<br />
trouble of no kind that has drug the law into your<br />
barn!"<br />
"Well, Danny," he says, "they HAS been a little<br />
trouble. But it's about over, now, I guess. And<br />
that there outfit belongs to the town now."<br />
"You don't say so!" says I, surprised-like.<br />
"When I seen them men last night it looked to me<br />
like they was too fine dressed to be honest."<br />
"I don't think they be, Danny," says Jake,<br />
confidential. "In my opinion they is mighty bad<br />
customers. But they has got on the wrong side<br />
of the law now, and I guess they won't stay around<br />
here much longer."<br />
"Well," says I, "Hank will be glad."<br />
"Fur what?" asts Jake.<br />
"Well," says I, "because he got his pay in advance<br />
fur that job and now he don't have to finish it.<br />
They come along to our place about sundown<br />
yesterday, and we nailed a shoe on one hoss. They<br />
was a couple of other hoofs needed fixing, and the<br />
tire on one of the hind wheels was beginning to<br />
rattle loose."<br />
I had noticed that loose tire when I was standing<br />
by the hind wheel the night before, and it come in<br />
handy now. So I goes on: