"That's a good rope horse you're riding.

If you want to use him, and if you can hold up to that little sample of roping yuh gave us, I'll pay yuh sixty a month.

And that's partly for doing what you're told," he added with a quick look into Bud's eyes.

"You didn't say where you're from----" "I was born and raised in cow-country, and nobody's looking for me," Bud informed him over his shoulder while he remounted, and let it go at that.

From southern Wyoming to Idaho was too far, he reasoned, to make it worth while stating his exact place of residence.