That is the way it acts with boys and men, and animals are not so very different." "I guess you're right," said Joshua.

"When I wanted to get a favor out of dad, I always used to wait till the old man had got his belly full.

That made him kinder good-natured." "I see you understand human nature, Mr.Bickford," said Joe.
"I guess I do," said Joshua complacently.

"Great Jehoshaphat, who's that ?" Joe raised his head and saw riding toward them a man who might have sat for the photograph of a bandit without any alteration in his countenance or apparel.

He wore a red flannel shirt, pants of rough cloth, a Mexican sombrero, had a bowie-knife stuck in his girdle, and displayed a revolver rather ostentatiously.