"Or, as far as that goes, old Snip will bring him home." "If he knows enough to figger it out, or to let Snip have his head," said Curly.
"At any rate," the Dean maintained, "he'll learn somethin' about the country, an' he'll learn somethin' about fences, an' mebby he'll learn somethin' about horses.

An' we'll see whether he can use his own head or not.

There's nothin' like givin' a man a chance to find out things for himself sometimes.

Besides, think what a chance he'll have for some of his experiments! I'll bet a yearling steer that when we do see him again, he'll be tickled to death at himself an' wonderin' how he had the nerve to do it." "To do what ?" asked Mrs.Baldwin.
"I don't know what," chuckled the Dean; "but he's bound to do some fool thing or other just to see if he can, and it'll be somethin' that nobody but him would ever think of doin', too." But Honorable Patches did not get lost that day--that is, not too badly lost.

There was a time, though--but that does not belong just here.
Patches was very well pleased with the task assigned to him that morning.