I done all I could to find his parents.

I inquired and sent letters to every rancher within a hundred miles.

I advertised it through the railroads, but they said nobody'd yet been reported lost.

He was still mine, at least for a while, an' I was terrible glad.
"I give the kid a spare room.

I sat up late that first night listenin' to the wild geese honkin' away up in the sky an' wonderin' why I was so happy.