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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: between his shirt and his heels, but all leather and deadly weapons. He
had also a riata, a cuerta, and tapaderos, and frequently employed these
Spanish names for the objects. I wish that I had not lost Tommy's
photograph in Rocky Mountain costume. You must understand that he was
really pretty, with blue eyes, ruddy cheeks, and a graceful figure; and,
besides, he had twenty-four hours' start of poor dusty Lin, whose best
clothes were elsewhere.
You might have supposed that it would be Mrs. Taylor who should present
us to her friend from Sidney, Nebraska; but Tommy on his horse undertook
the office before the wagon had well come to a standstill. "Good friends
of mine, and gentlemen, both," said he to Miss Peck; and to us, "A lady
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