He's been eddicated East an' can read in books, an' pow-wows American mighty near as flooent as I does myse'f.

An' on that last p'int I'll take a chance that I ain't tongue-tied neither.
"Which this yere is a long time ago.

Them is days when I'm young an' lithe an' strong.

I can heft a pony an' I'm six foot two in my moccasins.

No, I ain't so tall by three inches now; old age shortens a gent up a whole lot.
"My range is on the south bank of Red River--over on the Texas side.
Across on the no'th is the Nation--what map folks call the 'Injun Territory.' In them epocks we experiences Injuns free an' frequent, as our drives takes us across the Nation from south to no'th the widest way.
We works over the old Jones an' Plummer trail, which thoroughfare I alloodes to once or twice before.