He revised his first intention to let the conversation drop.
"I think M.& D.is rather full up just now," he remarked.

"I'm walkin'-boss there.

The roads is about all made, and road-making is what a greenhorn tackles first.

They's more chance earlier in the year.

But if the OLD Fellow" (he strongly accented the first word) "h'aint nothin' for you, just ask for Tim Shearer, an' I'll try to put you on the trail for some jobber's camp." The whistle of the locomotive blew, and the conductor appeared in the doorway.
"Where's that fellow's turkey ?" he inquired.
Several men looked toward Thorpe, who, not understanding this argot of the camps, was a little bewildered.