The other one’s head and two little paws were sticking out. Both of them were whimpering.
A smile spread all over the big marshal’s face. “So that’s what started the fight,” he said.
Walking over, he knelt down and started petting the pups. “They’re fine- looking dogs,” he said.
“Where did you get them?” I told him I had ordered them from Kentucky.
“What did they cost you?” he asked. “Forty dollars,” I said.
He asked if my father had bought them for me. “No,” I said. “I bought them myself.”
He asked me where I got the money. “I worked and saved it,” I said.
“It takes a long time to save forty dollars,” he said. “Yes,” I said. “It took me two years.”
“Two years!” he exclaimed. I saw an outraged look come over the marshal’s face.
Reaching up, he pushed his hat back. He glanced up and down the street.
I heard him mutter, “There’s not a one in that bunch with that kind of grit.”
Picking up my sack, I said, “Thanks for helping me out. I guess I’d better be heading for home.”
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