"You'll have to cross it every time you come to town, McKinney.

When she gits to runnin' right free and general, there'll be a double row of cow corpses from here to Santa Rosa.

What this here new railroad is a-goin' to do to your English stockholders, Mac, is a deep and abidin' plenty." McKinney made no reply, but looked stolidly out across the valley.
"Them fellers come up into town for tobacco, Doc." Curly threw out the suggestion cheerfully.
"Tobacco ain't _drugs_," said Doc Tomlinson, annoyed.

He was sensitive about allusions to his stock of drugs, which had been imported some years before, and under a misapprehension as to Heart's Desire's future.
"We might shoot up the surveyors," said Curly, tentatively.

But Dan Anderson shook his head.
"That's the worst of it," he answered, "We might shoot any one of us here, and the world wouldn't care.