CHAPTER XVI: BAGGS PULLS STRINGSThe following morning Sailor Jones came to Lobo Wells after the mail. It was seldom that Sailor took a drink, but when he did, he hated to stop. Such was the case this morning. He got the mail, stuffed it in his hip pocket, and was ready to go back when somebody told him about Baggs nearly being killed.
“By grab, there is some good people left in the world!” he exclaimed, and offered to buy his informant a drink.
One drink was but a beginning, and by the time Hashknife and Sleepy found him he was standing at the Oasis bar trying to sing. If there was one thing Sailor didn’t have, it was a voice, but he merely nodded to Hashknife and continued:
“Tell the ki-yotes, when they come at night,
A huntin’ for their prey,
They might as well go further,
For they
