"It had slipped my mind altogether, and it was only to-day, when Babe was scratching out a snake's track--so the snake couldn't find the way back home, she said--that I chanced to remember.

Just a small thing, you know, that may or may not mean _something_ very large and _important_--like a gold mine, for instance." "I don't have to go to work 'til sunup," Casey hinted broadly, "and I've set up many a night when I wasn't havin' half as much fun as I git listenin' to you talk." Again the Little Woman laughed.

I think she had been rambling along just to bait Casey into something like that." "Very well, then, I'll come to the point.

Though it is such a luxury to talk, sometimes! For a woman, that is.
"Three years ago we had two burros to pack water from your gulch, where there were too many snakes, to this gulch where there never seemed to be so many.

We hadn't developed this spring then.