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(Texas)




arid that mad~e us about a forty.~f1ve r~11e ride to g~t to that crossin‘, to a place called Bagdad, right on the waters of the Rio Grand~
~We got our lunch at Brownsville and

started out to go to this crossin‘. I knowed right about where this crossin‘ was and I eaye to the cap‘n, ~ you reckon I better go arid see 1f they was any sign?‘ We stayed there about three hours and didn‘t hear a thing. And then t~e cap‘n said,. ‘Boys, we better eat our lunch‘. while we was catin‘, we heard somebody holler, and he said, ~~oyß, there they are!‘ And he said to me, ‘Ben, you want to stay with the horses or be in the fun?‘ And I said, ‘I don‘t care! So he said, ‘You better stay with the horses; you ain‘t paid to till Meskins~ I went out to where the horses were. The rangers were afoot in the brush. It was about an hour from the time we heard the fellow holler before the cattle got there. When the rangers placed themselves on the side of the road, the Meskins didn‘t know what they was goin‘ to get intol
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