"Glad you agree with me, old sport," he addressed the bird whimsically, with a reaction to his normally cheerful outlook.

"Sheepherders are all those things I named over, birdie, and some that I can't think of at present." He tried again, this time with a more careful realization of his limitations, to assume an upright position; and being a persevering young man, and one with a ready wit, he managed at length to wriggle himself back upon the slope from which he had slid in his sleep, and, by digging in his heels and going carefully, he did at last rise upon his knees, and from there triumphantly to his feet.
He had at first believed that one of the herders would, in the course of an hour or so, return and untie him, when he hoped to be able to retrieve, in a measure, his self-respect, which he had lost when the first three feet of his own rope had encircled him.

To be tied and trussed by sheepherders! Andy gritted his teeth and started down the coulee.
He was hungry, and his lunch was tied to his saddle.

He looked eagerly down the coulee, in the faint hope of seeing his horse grazing somewhere along its length, until the numbness of his arms and hands reminded him that forty lunches, tied upon forty saddles at his side, would be of no use to him in his present position.

His hands he could not move from his thighs; he could wiggle his fingers--which he did, to relieve as much as possible that unpleasant, prickly sensation which we call a "going to sleep" of the afflicted members.