"They hang close together on account of th' war-whoops, an' they like th' trails purty well because of there allus bein' somebody passin'." "Buck ought to send some of th' Panhandle boys up there," suggested Red.
"There's Pie Willis an' th' Jordans--they knows th' Panhandle like yu knows poker." Frenchy had paid no apparent attention to the conversation up to this point, but now he declared himself.

"Yu heard what Buck said, didn't yu ?" He asked.

"We were told to search th' Staked Plains from one end to th' other an' I'm goin' to do it if I can hold out long enough.

I ain't goin' to palaver with yu because what yu say can't be denied as far as wisdom is concerned.

Yu may have hit it plumb center, but I knows what I was ordered to do, an' yu can't get me to go over there if you shouts all night.