Mind, I say to think of yourself, as a man.

It doesn't much matter what others think of you.

It is what one can honestly think of one's self that matters." So they spent the evening together, and the big mountaineer learned to see still more deeply into the things that had come to the older man in his years of study and painful experience.
When at last Young Matt arose to say good-night, the shepherd tried to persuade him to sleep at the ranch.

But he said, no, the folks at home would be looking for him, and he must go.

"I'm mighty glad I come, Dad," he added; "I don't know what I'd do if it wasn't for you; go plumb hog wild, and make a fool of myself, I reckon.