There, indeed, was cold storage, the only cold storage possible in Heart's Desire! "Tom Osby brought 'em down from Vegas the last time he come down," said Curly.

"They're there, sir, four cans of 'em.

You know where the Carrizo spring is?
Well, there's a snowbank in that canon, about two hundred yards off to the left of the spring.

The oysters is in there.
Keep?
They got to keep! "Them's the only oysters ever was knowed between the Pecos and the Rio Grande," he continued pridefully.

"Now I want to ask you, friend, if this ain't just a leetle the dashed blamedest, hottest Christmas dinner ever was pulled off ?" "Curly," said I, "you are a continuous surprise to me." "The trouble with you is," said Curly, lighting another cigarette, "you look the wrong way from the top of the divide.