"What about the Indians?" asked Tad impatiently. "I guess you dreamed you saw them."

"No, I didn't. I went to sleep by the rock and when I woke up it was daylight. I yawned."

"Of course you did," jeered Ned. "Wouldn't have been you if you hadn't yawned."

"I was rubbing my eyes and trying to make up my mind where I was when—when——"

"When what?" urged Tad.

"When somebody said, 'How?'"

The sheepmen laughed.

"I—I looked around, and there—there stood a lot of Indians——"

"On their heads!" asked Ned.

"No, sitting on their ponies. Then—then I—"