Thar's a steadiness to Wolfville that shows the camp has depth;
it can lose without thinkin' of sooicide, it can win an' not get
drunk. The Wolfville emotions sets squar' an' steady in the saddle,
an' it takes more than mere commonplace buckin' to so much as throw
its foot loose from a stirrup, let alone send it flyin' from its
seat.
"On this yere o'caslon, however, Wolfville gets stirred a whole lot.
For that matter, the balance of Southeast Arizona gives way
likewise, an' excitement is genial an' shorely mounts plumb high. I
remembers plain, now my mind is on them topics, how Red Dog goes
hysterical complete, an' sets up nights an' screams. Which the vocal
carryin's on of that prideless village is a shame to coyotes!
"It's hold-ups that so wrings the public's feelin's. Stages is stood
up; passengers, mail-bags an' express boxes gets cleaned out for
their last splinter. An' it ain't confined to jest one trail. This
festival of crime incloodes a whole region; an' twenty stages, in as
many different places an' almost as many days, yields up to these
yere bandits. Old Monte, looks like, is a speshul fav'rite; they
goes through that old drunkard twice for all thar is in the vehicle.
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