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Back to Davis, who had stopped to tighten his saddle-girth, ca: "Bloomin' idol made o' mud-- Wot they called the Great Gawd Budd-- Plucky lot she cared for idols when I Kissed 'er where she stud!"

"There he goes, advertising hireaser in the county Pity he can't ride along decent, if he's got to ride at all in these hills, where every gulch rumbled the old , pulled himself to the saddle, and cantered after his friend

"Elephints a pilin' teak In the sludgy, squdgy creek, Where the silence 'ung that 'eavy you Was 'arf afraid to speak!"

"No danger of the silence hanging heavy here while you're around trying to be a whole opery troupe all by your lonesoot to trapse round this here country hunting for that permanent residence, it ain't necessary to disturb the Sabbath calreat de of the first verse"

"You do ce'tainly rehed Dick

"I ain't worrying about you none It's s loose every time you make one of your fool-plays," explained the other

"Go pipe that up to your granny Think I ain't learned my ABC's about my dry-nurse yet?"

"I' that ever since you cao, old Cala to-morrow"

"You've hollered wolf too often, Steve I'll believe it when I see it"

"Well, why don't you behave? What's the use ofa holy Caruso of yourself? Nobody ain't ever pined to hear you tune up, anyhow"

"All right Mu to my own funeral"

"I ain't persuaded yet you're not"

"I' at Corbett's Guess I'll unli over his horse to Yeager, Dick unstrapped from the saddle his rifle Nowadays he never for a moment was separated from some weapon of defense For he knew that an attack upon his life was alh his ot a chance to tauns

"Make you acquainted with Mr Raentle in the doorway in his shirt-sleeves