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Cow-Country

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: WHY BUD MISSED A DANCE
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Any able-bodied man who will deliberately make a barbecue of himself for a gang of blood-thirsty insects ought to be hanged.

What's the rest ?" "You can call that mild," Jerry stated severely.

"Bud, you're playing to lose the shirt off your back.

You've got a hundred dollar forfeit up on next Sunday's running match, so you'll run if you have to race Boise afoot.

That's all right if you want the risk--but did it ever occur to you that if all the coin in the neighborhood is collected in one man's pocket, there'll be about as many fellows as there are losers, that will lay awake till sun-up figuring how to heel him and ride off with the roll?
I ain't over-stocked with courage, myself.


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