But old Applehead
rose up and shook an indignant finger at Happy Jack.
"There ain't, hey? Well, I calc'late that fer a josh, them thar Navvies has
got a right keen sense uh humor, and I've knowed men to laff theirselves to
death on their danged resavation--now I'm tellin' yuh I It was all a josh
mebby, when they riz up a year or two back 'cause one uh their tribe was goin'
t' be arrested er some darn thing! Ole General Scott, he didn't call it no
joke when he, went in thar to settle 'em down, did he? I calc'late, mebby it
was jest fer a josh them troops waited on the aidge, ready to go in if he
didn't git back a certain time! 'N' that wasn't so fur back, shorely, -only
two years. Why dang your fool heart, I've laid out there in them hills myself
and fit off the Navvies -'n' _I_ didn't see nothin' much to laugh at, now I'm
tellin' yuh! Time I went there after Jose Martinez--"
"Better get under way, boys," Luck interrupted, having heard many times the
details of that fight and capture. "We'll throw out a circle and pick up the
trail of that machine, or whatever they made their getaway in. My idea is that
they must have stached some horses out here somewhere.
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