They're tur'ble strong." "But where did she come from ?" he wonders.
"As for that," says I, "don't you remember now that T 0 outfit had a yearlin' kid when it came into the country ?" "That's right," says he.

"It's only a mile down the canon.

I'll take it home.

They must be most distracted about it." So I scratched up to the top where my pony was waitin'.

It was a tur'ble hard climb, and I 'most had to have hooks on my eyebrows to get up at all.