"Really," he answered indifferently, "I had not thought of that." "I should think you'd be thinking of it along about supper time, if you've walked from town since morning." The stranger looked up with sudden interest; but the cowboy fancied that there was a touch of bitterness under the droll tone of his reply.

"Do you know, Mr.Acton, I have never been really hungry in my life.

It might be interesting to try it once, don't you think ?" Phil Acton laughed, as he returned, "It might be interesting, all right, but I think I better tell you, just the same, that there's a ranch down yonder in the timber.

It's nothing but a goat ranch, but I reckon they would take you in.

It's too far to the Cross-Triangle for me to ask you there.