Put him to work.

Make him pack this stuff down cellar where it isn't two hundred in the shade.

Why don't you ?" "We was going to get ice t'day, but they didn't throw it off when the train went through." "That's comforting--to a man with a thirst like the great Sahara.

Ice! Pete, do you know what I'd like to do to a man that mentions ice after a drink like that ?" Pete neither knew nor wanted to know, and he told Grant so.

"If you're going down to the ranch," he added, by way of changing the subject, "there's some mail you might as well take along." "Sure, I'm going--for a drink out of that spring, if nothing else.
You've lost a good customer to-day, Pete.