"You ain't on the dodge, too, are yuh ?" "Nope," Bud grinned.

"Over at the Muleshoe they seemed to think I was.

I just struck out for myself, and I want to show up at home some day with a stake I made myself.

It's just a little argument with my dad that I want to settle.

And," he added frankly, "I seem to have struck the right place to make money quickly.