And that's how me and Buddy came to be named Allegheny and Ozark.

But we never expected to _see_ 'em.

The drought burned us out too often." Allegheny and Ozark.

Quaint names.

"Times must have been hard." The remark was intended only as a spur.
"_Hard!_" There was a pause; slowly the girl's eyes began to smolder, and as she went on in her deliberate way, memory set a tragic shadow over her face.