"We were going anyway in a minute.

Tell your mother we were just congratulating Lauman on rounding up these Wagners.

Come on, boys.

And you, Bud, hurry up and get well again; we miss yuh round the Lazy Eight." The three who were sitting on Lauman got up, and he gave a sigh of relief.

"Say, yuh darned cowpunchers don't have no mercy on an old man's carcass at all," he groaned, in exaggerated self-pity.