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"First time I ever heard a hoss-thief called a gentleman," chuckled Matt.
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'Tain't murder to kill a hoss-thief, any way you can fix it; everybody admits that.
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"You'll find out what we want of you, you damned hoss-thief!" he cried.
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This is the first time I ever paid a hoss-thief in _silver_, or bought stolen goods, but everything has to have a beginning.
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That's a Bar-20 cayuse, an 'no hoss-thief ever worked for that ranch.
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One of The Spider's bunch, and a hoss-thief right!
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No reg'lar hoss-thief would take that much trouble to advertise himself.
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But there's that José who knows every foot of the dry-spot clean to the Ortez -- and he knows every hoss-thief in this sun-blasted country.
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I ain't no killer or no hoss-thief lookin 'for a job.
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She'll find out this hoss-thief in Fort Henry; but Lew, when we do get him we won't be much better off.
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