I dunno what Kate was thinkin' of to bring you out here!" "The excellence of your intention," said the doctor, "I shall freely admit, though the assumption that difficulty in the essential problem would deter me from the analysis is an hypothesis which I cannot leave uncontested.

In the vulgar, I may give you to understand that I am in this to stay!" Buck Daniels started to speak, but thinking better of it he shrugged his shoulders and sat back, resigned.
"Well," he said, "Kate brought you out here.

Maybe she has a reason for it.

What d'you want to know ?" "What connection," said the doctor, "have wild geese with a man, a horse, and a dog ?" "What in hell d'you know about a horse and a man and a dog--and wild geese ?" inquired Buck in a strained voice.
"Rumour," said the doctor, "has been in this instance, unfortunately, my only teacher.

But, sir, I have ascertained that Mr.Cumberland, his daughter, and you, sir, are all waiting for a certain thing to come to this ranch, and that thing I naturally assume to be a man." "Doc," said the cowpuncher sarcastically, "there ain't no doubt you got a wonderful brain!" "Mockery," pronounced the man of learning, "is a use of the mental powers which is both unworthy and barren and does not in this case advance the argument, which is: Who and what is this man for whom you wait ?" "He came," said Buck Daniels, "out of nowhere.