94 BULGER’S REPUTATION.

down the hill, like old times, and we waitin’
for ’e1n. Then, jest as they passed the old
cabin, Who do you think they ran right into
—shooting-iron, long hair and mustache,
and all that——standing there plump in the
road? -— why, Bulgerl ”

“Well? ”

“We1l!--\Vhatever it was—don’t ask
me—but, dern my skin, ef after a word or
two from hz7m—them boys just stopped
yellin’, turned round like lambs, and rode
away, peaceful-like, along with him. We
ran after them a spell, still yellin’, when
that thar Bulger faced around, said to us
that he ’d ‘ come down here for quiet,’ and
ef he couldn’t hev it he ’d have to leave
with those gentlemen who zvanted it too!
And I ‘n1 gosh darned ef those gentlenzezz —
you know ’em all——Patsey Carpenter,
Snap-shot Hzxrry, and the others—-ever
said a darned word, but kinder nodded ‘ So
long ’ and went away! ”

Our astonishment and mystifioation were
complete; and I regret to say, the indigna-
tion of Captain Jim and Mosby equally so.
“If we ’re going to be bossed by the first
new-comer,” said the former, gloomily, “I
reckon we might as well take our chances