Lonely Dove
“Want me to write you one?”
“No, I ain’t ready for the sanatorium yet,” Wilbarger said. “I never expected to meet Latin in this part of Texas but I guess
education has spread.”
“How’d you round up that much stock without horses?” Call asked, hoping to get the conversation back around to
business.
“Oh, well, I just trained a bunch of jackrabbits to chase ’em out of the brush,” Wilbarger said, a bit testy.
“In fact some dern Mexicans stole our horses,” he added. “I had heard you men hung all the Mexican horsethieves when