"Just at dusk a horse of brown, wet with sweat, came panting down
Through the little lane at the cow-ranch and stopped at Bessie's door.
But the cowboy was asleep and his slumbers were so deep
That little Bess could not awake him, if she were to try forevermore.
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"Now you have heard this story told, by the young and by the old,
Way down there at the cow-ranch the night the Apaches came.
Heard them speak of the bloody fight, how the chief fell in the flight
And of those panic-stricken warriors, when they speak Veniro's name."
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