Spying By-and-by pushing the bottle into his mouth, while Red Connors propped him, he grinned and took out five silver dollars, which he jingled under By-and-by's eyes, causing that worthy to lay aside the liquor and erratically grab for the tantalizing fortune.
"Not yet, sabe ?" said Hopalong, changing the position of the money.

"If yu wants to corral this here herd of simoleons yu has to ride a cayuse what Red bet me yu can't ride.

Yu has got to grow on that there saddle and stayed growed for five whole minutes by Buck's ticker.

I ain't a-goin' to tell yu he's any saw-horse, for yu'd know better, as yu reckons Red wouldn't bet on no losin' proposition if he knowed better, which same he don't.

Yu straddles that four-laigged cloudburst an' yu gets these, sabe?
I ain't seen th' cayuse yet that yu couldn't freeze to, an' I'm backin' my opinions with my moral support an' one month's pay." By-and-by's eyes began to glitter as the meaning of the words sifted through his befuddled mind.