In Cowboy Land 255 



town jury hang a Cedartown man for stealin 

 a Medory man s horse/ said he. 



&quot; Well, what am I to do about my horse ? 

 says I. 



&quot; Do? says he; Veil, you know where the 

 man lives, don t you? says he; then sit up 

 outside his house to-night and shoot him when 

 he comes in, says he, and skip out with the 

 horse. 



&quot; All right, says I, that is what I ll do, 

 and I walked off. 



&quot;So I went off to his house and I laid down 

 behind some sage-bushes to wait for him. He 

 was not at home, but I could see his wife 

 movin about inside now and then, and I 

 waited and waited, and it growed darker, and 

 I begun to say to myself, Now here you are 

 lyin out to shoot this man when he comes 

 home; and it s gettin dark, and you don t 

 know him, and if you do shoot the next man 

 that comes into that house, like as not it won t 

 be the fellow you re after at all, but some 

 perfectly innocent man a-comin there after 

 the other man s wife P 



&quot;So I up and saddled the bronc and lit 

 out for home,&quot; concluded the narrator with 

 the air of one justly proud of his own self- 

 abnegating virtue. 



