d, occupied him until dinner-time. He quitted the table to
prepare for his night's work, and at five o'clock backed wild Bill into
the shafts of his high cart, lighted the hissing gasolene torch, and
mounted to his seat.
"I expect he'll want his head to-night; he's got a game look," he said
to Custer, nodding toward Bill. Then, as he tucked a horse blanket
snugly about his legs, he added: "It's a caution the way he gets over
the ground. I never seen a horse that gets over the ground like Bill
does."
Which was probably true enough, for Bill employed every known gait.
"He's a mighty well-broke horse!" agreed Custer in a tone of sincere
conviction.
"He is. He's got more gaits than you can shake a stick at!" said Mr.
Shrimplin.
Privately he labored under the delusion that Bill was dangerous; even
years of singular rectitude on Bill's part had failed to alter his
original opinion on this one point, and he often told Custer that he
would have felt lost with a horse just anybody could have driven, for
while Bill might not and probably would not have suited most people, he
suited him all right.
"Well, good-by, son," said Mr. Shrimplin, slapping Bill with the lines.
Bill went out of the alley back of Mr. Shrimplin's small barn, his head
held high, and taking tremendous strides that somehow failed in their
purpose if speed was the result desired.
Twilight deepened; the snow fell softly, silently, until it became a
ghostly mist that hid the town--hid the very houses on opposite sides of
the street, and through this flurry Bill shuffled with unerring
instinct, dragging Mr. Shrimplin from lamp-post to lamp-post, until
presently down the street a long row of lights blazed red in the
swirling smother of white.
Custer reentered the house. The day held the sentiment of Sunday and
this he found depressing. He had also dined ambitiously, and this he
found even more depressing. He wondered vaguely, but with no large
measure of hope, if there would be sledding in the morning. Probabl
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