The old man raised his voice: "No, I tell you.

An' that settles it." They returned to the horses, and, before mounting, Isbel, as if he remembered something, directed his somber gaze on young Evarts.
"Son, did you bury Bernardino ?" "Dad an' me went over yestiddy," replied the lad.

"I shore was glad the coyotes hadn't been round." "How aboot the sheep ?" "I left them there.

I was goin' to stay, but bein' all alone--I got skeered....

The sheep was doin' fine.