"There's no tellin'.

A man like that is liable to be anything." Then he added, with his usual philosophy: "He acts, though, like a genuine thoroughbred that's been badly mishandled an' has just found it out." When the day's work was finished and supper was over Little Billy found Patches where he stood looking across the valley toward Granite Mountain that loomed so boldly against the soft light of the evening sky.

The man greeted the boy awkwardly, as though unaccustomed to children.

But Little Billy, very much at ease, signified his readiness to help the stranger to an intimate acquaintance with the world of which he knew so much more than this big man.
He began with no waste of time on mere preliminaries.
"See that mountain over there?
That's Granite Mountain.

There's wild horses live around there, an' sometimes we catch 'em.