Cook the critter afore lettin' it kim to thet.

Ye've got punk, an' may make a fire o' the sage-brush.

I don't intend to run the risk o' sturvin' myself; an' as I mayn't find any thin' on the way, I'll jest take one o' these sweet-smellin' chickens along wi' me." He has already re-loaded the rifle; and, once more pointing its muzzle towards the sky, he brings down a second of the zopilotes.
"Now," he says, taking up the foul carcase, and slinging it to his belt, "keep up your heart till this chile return to ye.

I'm sure o' gettin' back by the mornin'; an' to make sartint 'bout the place, jest you squat unner the shadder o' yon big palmetto--the which I can see far enuff off to find yur wharabouts 'thout any defeequelty." The palmetto spoken of is, in truth, not a "palmetto," though a plant of kindred genus.

It is a _yucca_ of a species peculiar to the high table plains of Northern and Central Mexico, with long sword-shaped leaves springing aloe-like from a core in the centre, and radiating in all directions, so as to form a spherical chevaux-de-frize.