Jack calls the turn. Jaybird's
last joke alarms this tenderfoot Todd plumb outen Arizona, an' thar
ain't none of us ever sees ha'r, horn, nor hoof mark of him no more.
An' he takes with him, this Todd does, the boss pony in our bunch."
CHAPTER XVX.
BOGGS'S EXPERIENCE.
"No; thar's nothin' prolix about Boggs. Which on the contrary, his
nacher is shorely arduous that a-way. If it's a meetin' of the
committee, for instance, with intent then an' thar to dwell a whole
lot on the doin's of some malefactor, Boggs allers gets to a mental
show-down ahead of the other gents involved. Either he's out to
throw this party loose, or stretch his neck, or run him outen camp,
or whatever's deemed exact jestice, long before sech slow-an'-shore
people as Old Man Enright even looks at their hands. The trooth is,
Boggs ain't so strong on jedgement; his long suit is instinct. An'
moreover I knows from his drawin' four kyards so much in poker,
Boggs is plumb emotional."
At this point in his discourse the Old Cattle man paused and put in
several profound minutes in apparent contemplation of Boggs. Then he
went on.
"That's it; Boggs is emotional; an' I shorely reckons which he'd
even been a heap religious, only thar's no churches much on Boggs's
range.
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