"I started out to hunt you up, you old devil.

How are you, anyway ?" "It is well with me, and well with my soul--what little I've got--but it ain't so well with my winter grub-stake.

I'm just as tickled to see you as you ever dare be to meet up with me, and that's no lie.

I heard you've got a stand-in with the Double Cross, and seeing they ain't on to my little peculiarities, I thought I'd ride out and see if I couldn't work you for a soft snap.

Got any ducks out there you want led to water ?" "Maybe--I dunno.