I call most of this valley mine.

We'll run up a cabin for Ann soon as she says the word.

An' you, Jean, where's your girl?
I shore told you to fetch her." "Dad, I didn't have one," replied Jean.
"Wal, I wish you had," returned the rancher.

"You'll go courtin' one of these Tonto hussies that I might object to." "Why, father, there's not a girl in the valley Jean would look twice at," interposed Ann Isbel, with spirit.
Jean laughed the matter aside, but he had an uneasy memory.

Aunt Mary averred, after the manner of relatives, that Jean would play havoc among the women of the settlement.