He feels a
heap bad about it yet, an' I gets so sorry for him; so old an'
white-ha'red.'
"'An' you can gamble,' says Dave Tutt, 'if Nell likes him, he's all
right.'
"'If Nell likes him, that makes him all right,' says Cherokee.
"We-alls is still talkin' an' readin over our mail in the post-
office, when all at once we hears Jack Moore outside.
"'What's this yere literatoor as affronts my eyes, pasted onto the
outside of Uncle Sam's wickeyup?' says Jack, mighty truculent. We.
alls goes out, an' thar, shore-'nough, is a notice offerin' fifteen
hundred dollars reward for some sharp who's been a-standin' up the
stage over towards Prescott.
"'Whoever tacks this up? I wonder,' says Enright. `It never is yere
ten minutes ago.'
"'Well, jest you-all hover 'round an' watch the glory of its comin'
down,' says Jack, a-cuttin' of it loose with his bowie, an' tearin'
it up. 'I yerewith furnishes the information cold, this camp of
Wolfville knows its business an' don't have to be notified of
nothin'. This yere outfit has a vig'lance committee all reg'lar,
which I'm kettle-tender tharfor, an' when it comes nacheral to
announce some notice to the public, you-alls will perceive me a-
pervadin' of the scenery on a hoss an' promulgatin' of said notice
viver voce.
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