If yer dead-beat wants a job, and we can keep him from stealin' the tires off the wagon and the shoes off my big Jim, he can come to work in the mornin', and John will pay him a dollar a day and he can sleep over the stables.

And if he's decent, he can come in here once in a while and I'll warm him up with a cup of coffee.

I'm glad to take him on just because ye want it--and ye knew that before I said it, for there's nothin' I wouldn't do for ye, and ye know that, too.

Listen! That's John drivin' in, and I'm going out to meet him.".