Roscoe rode a little closer, meaning to introduce himself, when to his great surprise the farmer took off his hat and turned out not to be a he. The situation had been made the more amusing by the fact that Bob himself worshipped Gus, and would probably have thought it o You hush, the first voice said. It was a desperate trick, but the only one he could think of that increased his chances--most horses shied from the smell of fresh blood.
Those boys are bad ones, whoever they are, Augustus said. I despised you then, for what you were, and I despise you now, for what you're doing. If we was to meet now instead of when we did, I doubt we'd have two words to say to one another. He had it in his mind to dress them down, but the fact that the other hands were laughing at their ineffectual combat was probably all that was needed.
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