What I meant about Stafford don't apply to you." He looked up at his sister, still grinning.

"I reckon he ain't got nothing to do with it ?" The young woman blushed.

"I hope not," she said in a low voice.
"We're goin' to eat pretty soon," said the young man.

"I reckon that rattler didn't take your appetite ?" Ferguson flushed.

"It was plum rediculous, me bein' hooked by a rattler," he said.