Clarence E. Mulford / Clarence EMulford
Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Two tired but happy punchers rode into the coast town and dismounted in front of the best hotel. Putting up their horses as quickly as possible they made arrangements for sleeping quarters and then hastened out to attend to business. Buck had been kind to delegate this mission to them and they would feel free to enjoy what pleasures the town might afford. While at that time the city was not what it is now, nevertheless it was capable of satisfying what demands might be made upon it by two very active and zealous cow-punchers. Their first experience began as they left the hotel. 'Hey, you cow-wrastlers!' said a not unpleasant voice, and they turned suspiciously as it continued: 'You’ve shore got to hang up them guns with the hotel clerk while you cavorts around on this range. This is fence country.'
