[THEY RUSHED TO ONE SIDE, THUNDERING PAST THE AUTO.]
“He’s saved our lives!” exclaimed Nestor. “He’s stampeded the cattle away from us in the nick of time!”
On and on galloped the steers until the last one disappeared over the rolling hills of the prairie. Then the man on the horse rode over to the auto.
“Howdy!” he called.
“Howdy!” replied Nestor.
“Got ye in kind of a tight place, didn’t they?” went on the horseman.
“We would have been killed only for you,” spoke Jerry and his voice told how thankful he was.
“Oh, shoo! That wa’n’t nothin’,” replied the stranger. “I seen ye comin’ up in that there shebang of yours an’ then I seen the cows chasin’ ye. I was a leetle afraid ye’d go over the cliff, but ye stopped in time. Then I see it was up to me to stop them critters, an’ I done it.”
“Lucky for us you did,” put in Nestor.