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Book Excerpt: a gun and revolver?""Certainly.""How many trips have you made?""None.""Then how the devil do you know you can drive?""For the simple reason I am more than anxious to learn, and so are my friends." Then I made a clean breast of the position we were in and urged him to give us a chance."Well," he said, "You seem to be a determined little cuss; are the rest of the same timber?"I told him they were of the same wood but not of the same tree.After thinking the matter over, he said, "I'll tell you what I will do. I will hire the big fellow for driver at one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, and the little fellow for night herder at one hundred dollars a month, and yourself for cook for one mess of twenty-five men and for driver in case of sickness or death, at one hundred and twenty-five dollars a month."We then gave him our names, and, in return, he gave us a note to Mr. Perry, his wagon boss. We at once started for his corral, two miRead More
