Larry and Stretch 3 by Marshall Grover

Author:Marshall Grover
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cleveland western, piccadilly publishing, western fiction ebook, marshall grover, cowboys and gunslingers of the old west, larry and strech western, texas cattle
Publisher: Piccadilly Publishing

“Swing your partner—grab her by the hair!

Beat her on the haid with the leg of a chair!

She don't worry and you don't care!

’Cause we're all friends together here ...!”

Towards midnight, the dancers pressed closer to the orchestra to listen to the rowdy duets performed by the Texans. Their repertoire seemed endless, and still the locals clamored for encores. Shoulder to shoulder and strumming borrowed guitars, they rendered such plaintive Lone Star ditties as “Alamo Joe”, “Is There Anybody Here From Texas?”, “Lone Star Lulu” and “The Saddle-sore Preacher On The Sway-back Mule.”

The locals applauded, the applejack flowed and three pretty spinsters—once determined to take their chances in a brawling mining camp—listened attentively to earnest bachelors who talked of wedding rings, fine farm sites and a prosperous future.

When, in the dawn hours, the wagon returned to the basin, Buck Farnum squatted by the fire and counted the chattering girls. The drifters joined him, hunkered down beside him and flashed triumphant grins.

“You took all seven of ’em to the social,” drawled Farnum. “I counted ’em just now, and all I see is four.”

“Tess and Abigail and Fern,” said Larry, “are stayin’ in Atwater. They got better than a dozen bachelors to choose from, and, while they’re gettin’ courted, they’ll be livin’ respectable at the preacher’s house. Come sunup, we’ll deliver their baggage to the Littleton place. I reckon that’s fair enough.”

“You won’t hear me complaining,” Farnum assured him. “But what about Charity, Mary Ann, Donna and Katie?”

“They’re stayin’ with us,” grinned Larry, “but who knows for how long?”

“If I was ten years younger,” mused Farnum, “I’d give those Atwater bachelors a little competition—damned if I wouldn’t.”

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