ance that I was ‘all right’ and could 
apply any time for a job. I may as 
well say that Nimrod had allowed me 
to go without him in the morning, be- 
cause the cattle business was no novelty 
to him; because daybreak rising did not 
appeal to him as a pastime; and because, 
at the time I broached the subject, being 
engaged in writing a story, he had re- 
moved but one-eighth of his mind for 
the consideration of mundane affairs, 
and that, as any one knows, is insuffic- 
ient to judge fairly whether the winged 
thing I was reaching out for was a fly 
ora bumble bee. In the morning, the 
story being finished and the other seven- 
eights of brain at liberty to dwell upon 
the same question, he decided to follow 
me, with the result that in the afternoon 
I rode in the wagon. 
The cowboy meal, which I believe 
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ADO VAMOZN +4 meee Os 
