Kin you keep it goin?
Hopin this will find you the same Yours truly Wm Jordan There were two notations in pencil at the bottom of the letter.

One read: Walt--Im passin the kid along to you.

Get busy.
Dan And the other, Buck's: Dont kill this kid but come as near to it as you kin.
Walt A great light broke in on Whitey.

So this was the meaning of it all?
the twenty-five mile walk to Cal Smith's house; the singular conduct of the men at the T Up and Down; the nester's lending him that jack Felix, that he knew would run home and leave Whitey alone on the plains; and Walt Lampson's sending him out on the range, in the face of a storm.

And as a sort of high peak in his mountain range of troubles Whitey remembered Little Thompson's talk about funerals.