What was it about them dryfarmers ?" "He said," piped Pink, "that he'd got next to a scheme to bring a big bunch of dry-farmers in on this bench up here, with stock that they'd turn loose on the range.

That's what he said.

He claims the agent wanted him to go in on it." "Mamma!" Weary held a match poised midway between his thigh and his cigarette while he stared at Pink.

"That would be some mixup--if it was to happen." His sunny blue eyes--that were getting little crow's-feet at their corners--turned to look after the departing Andy.

"Where's the josh ?" he questioned the group.
"The josh is, that he'd like to see us all het up over it, and makin' war-talks and laying for the pilgrims some dark night with our six-guns, most likely," retorted Pink, who happened to be in a bad humor because in ten minutes he was due at a line of post-holes that divided the big pasture into two unequal parts.