He took a fine chance of getting himself kicked, but he did not tell the Kid that.
"That all right now, Buck ?" Big Medicine wanted to know, when he had accomplished the thing without accident.
"Oh, it'll do," was the frugal praise he got.

"I've got to go and feed my string, now.

And after a while I'll water him.

You want to feed your horse always before you water him, 'cause eatin' makes him firsty.

You 'member that, now." "I'll sure try to, Buck," Big Medicine promised soberly, and watched the Kid go striding away with his hat tilted at the approved Happy-Family angle and his small hands in his pockets.