Longarm 162 by Tabor Evans

Author:Tabor Evans [Evans, Tabor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Westerns - General, Fiction - Western, Westerns
Publisher: Jove
Published: 1992-05-31T17:00:00+00:00

muck. That was how come poor folk in lands like Mexico lived right on the slopes of volcanos. They weren't trying to commit sdicide. They were trying to raise enough to get by. All five ponies seemed to like the grazing in those lava flat hollows. Longarm let 'em, within reason, since they had to rest 'em at least once an hour, and it would have been needlessly cruel to put 'em on a diet at the same time.

Moreno said he'd noticed from the first how kind Longarm was to stock and other critters. He said, "My people feel women and other lesser beings must be controlled with a firm hand, for to show them who is boss."

Longarm, smoking a Negrita, muttered, "I've been to your chicken fights and watched a torero get all gussied up in fancy duds before he butchers a cow, Spanish style. I thought we'd settled it in that war we had with you-all that we ain't sissies just because we can ride a roan or a redhead without whipping the tar out of neither. Some say our style of roping is cruder than your'n and we do eat way more meat, so I reckon it all evens out. Watch how you jerk the bit of that one you're leading directsome. These Spanish bits your rurales use would be against the law if / had any say in the matter."

The vaquero gone wrong protested, "Hey, it takes a Spanish bit for to control any caballo broken in the Spanish style."

Longarm grunted, "That's what I just said. I ain't no sissy who weeps over a cavalry mount reduced to hauling ice. I'd rather haul ice when I got old than wind up in a glue pot, any day. You Mex hands would see some controlling if ever you hired on at the Hash Knife or the Jingle Bob at roundup time. Each and every Anglo hand gets his own string of six or eight ponies to control the shit out of, using up more than one a day during roundup, and he gets fired if the boss wrangler sees he's abused even one of 'em, needless."

Moreno sniffed and said, "You people are rich. You can afford for to pamper your stock, and we all know how you spoil your women."

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