In those days one did not always concern himself about problems more intricate and more distant.
Buford met him in the yard, and the two together busied themselves in taking care of the team, the former apologizing that he still had no servant for such work, "I did have a nigger here for a while," he said, "but he turned out no account, and the first I knew he went off for a cow-puncher down the trail.

I'm mighty glad to see you again, captain, for it looked as though you had forsaken us.

It certainly is a comfort to see a gentleman like yourself once in a while.

We meet plenty of cowmen and movers, decent folk enough, but they have a lack, sir, they have a lack.

I maintain, sir, that no gentleman can flourish without that intelligent social intercourse with his kind which is as much a part of his livin', sir, as the eatin' of his daily bread.