Then I want you to be on the lookout for a chance to drive cattle for somebody going West.

We'll find chances enough, and we'll strike for Abilene and your uncle's place.

I haven't money enough to carry me out there on the train.

Oh! won't it be good fun when we have a good horse apiece and go riding across the plains herding the longhorns! That's life, that is! If I'd only gone last year, out where the buffalo and the antelope are!" At such times the eagle's heart in the youth could scarcely endure the pale, cold light of the prison.

For an hour after one of these talks with Jack he tore around his cell like a crazed wolf, till his weary muscles absorbed the ache in his heart.
During the winter the Young Men's Christian Association of the town organized what they called a Prison Rescue Band, which held services in the jail each Sunday afternoon.