To some the main questions were when and where they were to get dinner or secure a drink.

The train, being a "through freight," ran almost as steadily as a passenger train, and the thirsty souls became quite depressed or savage at times by lack of opportunities to "wet their whistles." Mose was singularly silent, for he was reliving his boyish life on the plains and noting the changes which had taken place.

The towns had grown gray with the bleach of the weather.

Farms had multiplied and fences cut the range into pasture lands.

As the mountains sank beneath the level horizon line his heart sank with them.