You can git some young stock out of the trail cattle fer a'most anything you want to give, and you can hold your bunch in here on the White Woman when you git started.

You can cut a little hay a little lower down on the White Woman for your team, or they can range out in here all winter and do well, just like your cows can.

You can git a lot of stock about you before long, and what with keepin' a sort of eatin' station and ranchin' it a bit, you ought to git along mighty well, I should say.

But--'scuse me, have you ever farmed it much ?" "Well, sir," said Buford, slowly, "I used to plant corn and cotton, back in Kentucky, befo' the war." "And you come from Kentucky out here ?" "Not precisely that; no, sir.

I moved to Missouri from Kentucky after the war, and came from Missouri here." Sam looked at him, puzzled.