"I want to buy a horse," he repeated, "and you want to sell one to me.
I think you realize that fact, don't you?"
"Yes, I do," replied the man, looking down the muzzle of the big horse
pistol.
"Come outside and close the door behind you. I know you haven't on many
clothes, but the night's warm, and you need fresh air."
The man with the muzzle of the pistol still near his nose, obeyed.
But as he looked at the weapon he also had a comprehensive view of the
one who held it.
"Wet ain't you?" he said.
"Do you think it necessary to put it in the form of a question?"
"I don't like to say, unless I'm shore."
"Where do you keep your horses?"
"In the barn here to the left. What kind of a horse did you think you'd
keer fur most, stranger?"
"The biggest, the strongest and fastest you've got"
"I thought mebbe you'd want one with wings, you 'pear to be in such a
pow'ful hurry. I wish you wouldn't keep that pistol so near to my nose.
'Sides, you've gethered so much mud an' water 'bout you that you ain't so
very purty to look at!"
"It's your own mud and water. I didn't bring it into this country with
me."
"Which means that you don't belong in these parts. I reckon lookin' at
you that you wuz one o' them rebels that went to Gettysburg and then come
back ag'in.
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