Canby came forward to greet her, with his hand out. She ignored it and said indignantly:
"I should have spoiled this sale for you, Mr. Canby, if I had seen who was bidding on these locoed horses."
Though Canby flushed, he shrugged a shoulder and replied callously:
"We all had to get our eyeteeth cut when we came to the country."
CHAPTER X
THE BEST PULLING TEAM IN THE STATE
Leading the cow, and aided by "Tex" McGonnigle, who boasted that he had a heart as big as the country he lived in and was willing to prove it by helping him with the locoed horses, Wallie made fair progress as far as the gate in the last wire fence, where "Tex" had to leave him.
"'Tain't fur now," said that person, passing over the rope with a knot in the end with which he had belaboured the horses he had driven ahead of him. "Mog along stiddy and you'd ought to make it by sundown."