Long ere the fire had burned itself out, the wicked-looking cayuse following a bridle's length at his heels, he was back; waiting impatiently for the flame to die.

It's cruelty to animals for me to straddle a horse now, yet there's where I'm at home, and I'm going to buy me a cayuse of some kindsay, I ought to get at that; if I'm going around with Lettis I want to ride a horseknow anybody that's got a real live horse for sale, Mattie?

Guess you must 'a' bothered Luke Tweezy some when you spoke to him that day in front of the Happy Heart just before you and Lanpher crawled yore cayuses and rode to Dale's on Soogan Creek....

I aimed to see if I could make you forget to feed that cayuse.

I has my ideas these yar claims is no good, I has fer a fact, and they won't need no one here long, and then we'll lose ye, sonny, so you mus' shore hev that cayuse.

One morning a week later, after Mead and O'Reilly had gone, when the new master of the ranch arose it was to find a wicked-looking mouse-coloured cayuse standing motionless by the stable door.

In the middle of the fuss a stray shot hit the cayuse in the head and he croaked without a remark, so there we were, a pair of fools miles from home with nothing left to quarrel about!

"We'll leave the cayuses here," said he.

Three wide steps and he was in the waggon, and with one screech like a p'izened bob-cat, he fairly lifted the cayuses over the first ridge.

Black Wolf and I come together over a matter of who owned my cayuse, and from words we backed off and got to shooting.

Here's Molly Dale thinks Racey is the only fellah ever rode a cayuse, and you have to blat out so she can hear you, 'Marie must shore like him a lot'.

gets up and saddles his cayuse and fans it for town.

"He is shore a fine cayuse," he asserted with extreme impressiveness.

"I've stole some woman's cayuse.

Now you straddle that cayuse of yours and come along with me and I'll show you some rattling colts.

So that night E. G. W. Scraggs took his cayuse and made for the railroad station, bound east.

"'To hell with 'em!' says he, as savage as a wildcat, and he jabbed the irons in and whirled his cayuse about on one toe, heading for the ranch.