["She and Johnson rode together every day"]
["As Lafe was coming from dinner ... a Mexican handed him a letter"]
["So now Lafe, Jr., flattened out in his fissure in equal danger with his father"]
THE SHERIFF OF BADGER
CHAPTER I
LAFE JOHNSON ARRIVES AT THE LAZY L RANCH
It may come as a shock to many to learn that we have in cowland a considerable number of full-blooded men who have never made it a practice to step outside the door of a morning and shoot a fellow-citizen before breakfast. This is true; vital statistics and fiction to the contrary, notwithstanding. They are well-grown, two-fisted men, also, and work very hard seven days in the week, and whenever they go to town they get drunk. But in the main they are law-abiding, and steal calves only for their employers.