And when they were off, Whitey borrowed a pair of moccasins, and raced to the ranch house, with Injun and Sitting Bull.
Now, in the living-room of the Bar O ranch house in winter--and in every other ranch house in that part of the country--was a big stove that held a stick of cordwood three feet long.

In fact, it held four or five such sticks of cordwood, which, you can imagine, made a good fire.

And straight to this fire went Whitey.

He was wet, and he was ashamed.

And he put the boots under the stove to dry, without anybody's seeing him.
And he didn't say anything to his father about it, because he was ashamed.