"I never did know Juan to miss it on locatin' water yet, not onct.

I kin fairly taste it now.

But you see, Juan, he don't seem to go by no rock-pile signs.

He just seems to smell water, like a horse or a steer." They now rode on more rapidly, bearing off toward the cairn which made the water sign.

All at once Juan lifted his head, listened for a moment, and then said, with more show of animation than he had yet displayed and with positiveness in his voice: "_Vacas_!" ("cows; cattle").
Curly straightened up in his saddle as though electrified.