"Punchin' cows. Not that I 'low it's any o' yore d——d business."
"Where do you reside?"
"Where do I live?"
"Yes."
"Well, now, I don't know. My folks lives on the Brazos, an' I've been drivin' two years. Now I taken up a claim on the Smoky, out here. I 'low I'll go North right soon, to Wyoming maybe."
"How old are you?"
"Oh, I don't know; but I 'low about twenty-four or twenty-five, along in there."
"Where were you last Wednesday?"
"What?"
"Were you one of the posse sent out to search for Cal Greathouse?"