"Go to the barn, and shovel manure for Jimmy Malone, and do all the work he shirks, before you do anything for yoursilf." Dannie always had admitted that he did not understand women, but he understood a plain danger signal, and he almost ran from the cabin.

In the fear that Mary might think he had heeded her hasty words, he went to his own barn first, just to show her that he did not do Jimmy's work.

The flies and mosquitoes were so bad he kept his horses stabled through the day, and turned them to pasture at night.

So their stalls were to be cleaned, and he set to work.

When he had finished his own barn, as he had nothing else to do, he went on to Jimmy's.