What's the use then fer us to start fer Arizony with a wagon and team?
Like enough all the good stakes would be took up before we could get there.
Old Pop and me, we just turned back, allowing it was the sensiblest thing to do." "And you been in around here ever since." "Yes, sir; yes, sir, that's what I been.

Been around here ever since.
I told you the country kind of takes a holt on a feller.

Ain't it the truth?
Well, I trapped a little since then in the winters, and killed elk for the market some, like you know, and fished through the ice over on the lakes, like you know.

Some days I'd make three or four dollars a day fishing.

So at last when that Swede, Big Aleck, got run out of the county, I fell into his ranch.