That's why." "What happened ?" "Butch came in drunk, as I was saying, which he generally is, but he wasn't giving no trouble at all, and nobody felt particular called on to cross him and ask questions.

He was real sociable, in fact, and that's how the mess was started." "Go on.

I don't get your drift." "Everybody was treatin' Butch like he was the king of the earth and not passin' out any backtalk, all except one tenderfoot----" But here a stream of tremendous profanity burst from Nash.

It rose, it rushed on, it seemed an exhaustless vocabulary built up by long practice on mustangs and cattle.
At length: "Is that damned fool in Eldara ?" "D'you know him ?" "No.

Anyway, go on.