He spat carefully with the wind and swung over to meet his boss when the cow was safely in the cut herd.
"New one on me, Bart.

They's a hatchet brand over close to Jackson's Hole, somewhere.

Where'd the kid say he was from ?" "He wouldn't say, but he's a sure-enough cowhand." "That there horse ain't been rode down on no long journey," Dirk volunteered after further scrutiny.

And he added with the unconscious impertinence of an old and trusted employee, "Yuh goin' to put him on ?" "Already done it--sixty a month," Bart confided.

"That'll bring out what's in him; he's liable to turn out good for the outfit.