Lemme kill off jest one herder, Weary ?" he pleaded.

"The one that took a shot at me las' night.

Purty, please!" "If you killed one," Weary told him glumly, "you might as well make a clean sweep and take in the whole bunch." "Well, I won't charge nothin' extra fer that, either," Bud assured him generously.

"I'm willin' to throw in the other three--and the dawgs, too, by cripes!" He goggled the Happy Family quizzically.

"Nobody can't say there's anything small about me.