19/21 Kate'll be down here after you herself, if I go back without you--and she'll give me the dickens into the bargain. I want you to get acquainted with my kid--Buddy. He's down in the river field with the boys, but he'll be back directly. Greatest kid you ever saw, Ford! Only seven, and he can ride like a son-of-a-gun, and wears chaps and spurs, and can sling a loop pretty good, for a little kid! Come on!" "Wel-ll, all right--but Lordy me! I do hate to, Ches, and that's a fact. I never met one in my life that didn't hand me a package of trouble so big I couldn't see around it. |