JOHNNY WOULD SERVE TWO MASTERS Bland Halliday objected to rising with the sun.

In fact, he objected to rising at all.

He groaned a great deal, and he swore with great fluency and complained of excruciating pains here and there.

The only thing to which he did not object was eating the breakfast that Johnny had cooked.
And since Johnny could not remember the time when riding had been really painful, and therefore discounted the misery of his guest, he refused to concede the point of Bland Halliday's inability to get up and go about the business for which he had come so far.
"Aw, you'll be all right when you stir around a little," was the scant comfort he gave.

"It's a good big half mile over to where I've got it cached.