To all of these Harold applied during the days that followed, but received no offer which seemed to promise so well as that of Mr.Pratt, so he waited.

At last he came, a tall, sandy-bearded fellow, who walked beside a four-horse team drawing two covered wagons tandem.

Behind him straggled a bunch of bony cattle and some horses, herded by a girl and a small boy.

The girl rode a mettlesome little pony, sitting sidewise on a man's saddle.
"Wal--I d'n know," the old man replied in answer to Harold's question.
"I did 'low fer to get some help, but Jinnie she said she'd bring 'em along fer fifty cents a day, an' she's boss, stranger.

If she's sick o' the job, why, I'll make out with ye.