Oh, no! they said it was too ridiculous! We travelled on to Amarillo and I at once went out to Running Water.

Only two days afterwards, on coming in to dinner, I found my two gentlemen seated on the porch waiting for me.

After dinner we saddled up and went out to see the steers.

The dealers were evidently surprised and made a long and careful inspection.

Evidently they were well pleased, and on returning to the house it was also evident that they were going to adopt the usual tactics of whittling a small piece of wood (a seemingly necessary accompaniment to a trade) and "dickering"; so I again told them my terms, same as before, and hinted that they might take or leave them as they liked.