Came out to this country five years ago from Illinois with forty thousand dollars, and now we're going back with what I can sell my sheep for, maybe twenty-five hundred cash.

Menocal robbed me right at the start, selling me this place for twenty-five thousand--twenty thousand down and a mortgage for the remaining five thousand--when the place was just five thousand acres of sagebrush, with no more water than runs in this creek.

I was a tenderfoot all right! The land agent at Kennard showed it to me in June when the Perro was booming, and I believed him when he said it ran that way all the year around.

Look at it now! I didn't have sense enough to inquire and learn about it, being in a hurry to get into the sheep business and thinking I should be rich in no time.

That agent sold it to me for irrigated land, and a bargain at five dollars an acre.