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Christmas in Cactus Center · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Christmas in Cactus Center, Women's scarce in Cactus Center, and
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  Speaker 1: there ain't no bargain stores for to start them Monday
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  Speaker 1: rushes that break down the stoutest doors. But we had
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  Speaker 1: some Christmas shopping that the town ain't over yet, just
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  Speaker 1: because of one small woman and a drug store toilet set.
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  Speaker 1: She was Cactus Center's teacher, and she hadn't left the
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  Speaker 1: stage for she had the boys plum locoed. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't bar youth nor age. She was cute and smart
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  Speaker 1: and pretty, and she might have been here yet if
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  Speaker 1: it hadn't been for Dawson and his drug store toilet set.
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  Speaker 1: It was old and scratched and speckled for twas in
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  Speaker 1: his case for years. But old Dawson, sharp and clever,
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  Speaker 1: put a whisper in our ears load. He'd sell that
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  Speaker 1: set at auction, and he says, now, boys, you bet
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  Speaker 1: this'll make a hit with teacher. This here swell new
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  Speaker 1: toilet set. Well, the bidden started lively, and it got
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  Speaker 1: to gettin hot for every mind in Cactus On. That
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  Speaker 1: single thing was sought. Pretty soon. I'd staked my saddle
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  Speaker 1: worth two hundred dollars net just to own for one
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  Speaker 1: short second that blamed drug store toilet set. It was
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  Speaker 1: then begun the shootin' No one seems to know just how,
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  Speaker 1: and twas lack of ammunition that at last broke up
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  Speaker 1: the row and thirteen of us was herded. But the
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  Speaker 1: worst blow that we met was in finding that some
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  Speaker 1: bullets had gone through that toilet set. But we plugged
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  Speaker 1: the punctures in it, and we plugged the wounded two
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  Speaker 1: and agreed we'd arbitrate it and the bunch see it through.
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  Speaker 1: So we sent a gift committee, but they came back
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  Speaker 1: sore yet for the teacher fluttered eastward. So we have
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  Speaker 1: that toilet set