"I'm shore glad we had t' wait and set them wagon-tires," he added.

"We'd bin started this mornin' only fer that." "Aw, we ain't done nothing," Happy Jack protested in premature self defense.

"We ain't left the ranch yet.

I guess a feller's got a right to THINK!" "He has, if he's got anything to do it with," Pink could not forbear to remark pointedly.
"Well, if a feller didn't have, he'd have a fat chance borrying from YOU," Happy Jack retorted.
"Well, by cripes, I ain't perpared to bet very high that there's a teacupful uh brains in this hull outfit," Big Medicine asserted.

"We might a knowed Luck'd come back loaded fer bear; we WOULD a knowed it if we had any brains in our heads.