F'r instance, if I asks him what he thinks 'bout bein' barred out o' that there school, I don't promise he'll tell me right out.

He may spring some tale or yarn that shows what he thinks; mebbe he will, but I don't claim t' get no exact expression of his feelin's in th' matter." "Them conditions goes," Charlie agreed, "don't they, fellers ?" The "fellers" agreed that they did, and it now only remained to await the coming of Injun.

He was Whitey's guest at the ranch house that night, the night of the last day of Whitey's freedom from school.

As it was early, no doubt the boys would soon appear at the bunk house, to listen to the sort of Arabian Nights' entertainment that was afforded by the tales of the cowpunchers.
There was a momentary lull in the talk of the men, a lull in keeping with the outer night, which was still and very dark.

Presently a faint light flickered across the southern windows of the bunk house, followed by a low rumble in the northeast.
"Storm in th' mountains," volunteered Jim.
Another moment of silence was followed by a brighter glare, as the sky in the south caught the reflection of the northern lightning.