Dat is too cole for mak de work." "Them plains is sure a holy fright," assented Purdy.
"Th' old man knows it himself," agreed big Nolan; "did you see him rammin' around yesterday askin' us if we found her too cold?
He knows damn well he ought not to keep a man out that sort o' weather." "You'd shiver like a dog in a briar path on a warm day in July," said Jackson Hines contemptuously.
"Shut up!" said they.

"You're barn-boss.

You don't have to be out in th' cold." This was true.

So Jackson's intervention went for a little worse than nothing.
"It ain't lak' he has nuttin' besides," went on Baptiste.

"He can mak' de cut in de meedle of de fores'." "That's right," agreed Bob Stratton, "they's the west half of eight ain't been cut yet." So they sent a delegation to Radway.