They grew where the Happy Family went sometimes, when they were gone for days and days after stock.

They were down there now--it was down in the breaks, always--and they couldn't round up their cattle because they hadn't horses enough.

They needed help, so they could hurry back and slide those other shacks off their claims and into Antelope Coulee where they had slid the others.

On the whole, the Kid had a very fair conception of the state of affairs.

Claimants and contestants--those words went over his head.