That a shabby man's dog loved him just as well as though he wore purple and fine linen, whatever that was.

Whitey looked around for Bill to confound him with this truth, but Bill had disappeared--a way he had of doing the moment he got the better of an argument.
If the two men were aching to work, they had not long to suffer; Bill Jordan soon found occupation for them.

Slim, the negro cook, had been taken with a "misery" in his side, and Ham was installed in his place.
And to do Ham justice he was not such a bad cook.

The ranch hands allowed that he couldn't have been worse than Slim, anyway.

String Beans did not make so much of a hit as a cowpuncher.