"Old ginger-whiskers didn't pass out any facts, yuh notice.

He couldn't have got much; his land's mostly gravel and 'doby patches.

He's got a water right on Flying U creek, you know--first right, at that, seems to me--and a dandy fine spring in that coulee.

Wonder why our outfit didn't buy him out--seeing he wanted to sell so bad ?" "This wantin' to sell is something I never heard of b'fore," Slim said slowly.

"To hear him tell it, that ranch uh hisn was worth a dollar an inch, by golly.