"Well, now, Curly," he said, "it isn't instinct this time, surely, for Juan didn't say anything about it to you.

I would like to know how you know there is water ahead." "Why," said Curly, "that's the sign for water on the plains.

If you ever see one of them little piles of stones standin' up, you can depend you can git water there.

Sometimes it marks a place where you can git down through the breaks to the creek bed, and sometimes it means that if you dig in the bed there you can find water, 'lowin' the creek's dry." "But who built up the rock piles to make these signs ?" asked Franklin.
"O Lord! now you've got me," said Curly.

"I don't know no more about that than you do.