He inquired for you, an' said you was wild, but he reckoned men like you was good for pioneer settlements.

Lord knows the good turns you've done this village! Milt, old Al doesn't approve of your wild life, but he never had no hard feelin's till thet tame lion of yours killed so many of his sheep." "Auntie, I don't believe Tom ever killed Al's sheep," declared Dale, positively.
"Wal, Al thinks so, an' many other people," replied Mrs.Cass, shaking her gray head doubtfully.

"You never swore he didn't.

An' there was them two sheep-herders who did swear they seen him." "They only saw a cougar.

An' they were so scared they ran." "Who wouldn't?
Thet big beast is enough to scare any one.